January 29 2004 Uhrichsville Ohio


When a passionate railfan begets a very successful regional railroad, wonderful things can happen.  For a short time this occurred in central Ohio.  The successful railroad was the Ohio Central and the wonderful thing that happened was that the owner was able to build a modern shop where he could repair historic steam locomotives including very large ones like this Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4.  Furthermore, a video genius organized a photo charter for two days in the dead of winter.  Amazingly a snow storm dusted the landscape just before the trips making for truly beautiful photographs.  Even better, the sun came out.