 Conrail began trimming its freight service on the old C&MV in the 1980s.The railroad began moving freight traffic onto its Cleveland Line (the old Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, leaving the Randall and Freedom Secondaries with almost no traffic.It abandoned the C&MV line east of Mantua in 1981, and the line between Hubbard and Sharon in 1982.