Plum Creek Aqueduct, Kent, OH
1,051 views · Published 22 December 2010 · 2:28 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: John Horvath · 2010 · Travel & Events
Plum Creek Aqueduct 0:55 Westbound CSX container and trailer train over Plum Creek Aqueduct. Containers are one high. Where is the height restriction on the B&O main? SD70AC # 4513 leads. ES40DC # 5473 follows. 0:00 Plum Creek Aqueduct as new in the 1840's for the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal. 0:08 Plum Creek in Kent. Ohio has many Plum Creeks. 0:20 Downstream side of Plum Creek Aqueduct in 2010. 1:42 Top side of Plum Creek Aqueduct. Three tracks. The left track is Shelly Materials RR joining the middle track, the eastbound line of this double track CSX main. 1:50 Upstream side of Plum Creek Aqueduct. This is the face drawn when Plum Creek Aqueduct was new in the 1840's. 2:08 May be a cover for a stock report, or stock sales flyer, or broadside, for the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal (P&O). 2:13 Shelly Materials RR Headquarters and Prime Mover EMD SD18 #321. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal, P&O, was a successful private canal between Akron, OH, and the Beaver Canal branch of the Pennsylvania Canal. Today, the P&O ROW is a CSX double track main, the double track B&O main of eastern Ohio. Kelly Materials RR also has a line on the upstream side of Plum Creek Aqueduct connecting to CSX on the other side of the aqueduct. American Canal Society describes the P&O as obliterated. Here is a P&O structure in use. Plum Creek Aqueduct is not very accessible. The equally beautiful, now abandoned, Plum Creek Viaduct, a couple hundred feet upstream from the Plum Creek Aqueduct, built for the double track broad gauge Atlantic and Great Western RR, an Erie line, is similarly difficult to access. Erie Plum Creek Viaduct is barely visible through the forest, from Cherry St. CSX Plum Creek Aqueduct is not visible, either from the street, the bike hike trail by the Cuyahoga River, or trackside.
