A picture-perfect evening in the village of Pettisville is briefly disturbed by a pair of big BNSF EMD's leading an empty coal train west on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.

The calm of a small town Friday evening is briefly broken by the loud blasts of a classic Soo Line P3, as westbound CP trackage rights train 25T roars through town behind Soo 6022 and 6061. Hopefu... (more)

A loaded grain train climbs the hill at MR Cabin and ducks under the C&O signal bridge at the west end of double track between MR Cabin and BR Cabin. Time is growing short for the C&O signals alon... (more)

Southbound Q507 streaks through South Deshler under the light of a full moon on Cinco de Mayo.

With BN green getting harder and harder to find, I couldn't resist heading out to shoot the I&O's Lima-Delta turn on their return trip to Lima on a hazy spring morning. Here, the train is seen rol... (more)

It's a rainy evening in West Park as eastbound 12G rolls through the trench behind a pair of standard cab EMD's.

After sitting at Kremis for nearly two hours, BLE 907 and company charge south through Fredonia with a fresh crew on board.

BLE 907 leads three sisters and a loaded ore train through the interlocking at "KY" south of Greenville. This location is where the low line and high line rejoin after splitting north of town.

While a maintenance gang heads east on track two, a quartet of matching EMD standard cabs lead Q500 around the bend at milepost 92 on the Garrett Subdivision.

While the engineer of E711 converses with the HD Dispatcher about the previous nights debacle on his run to Columbus aboard Q311, the eastbound train of empties roars towards the Darst Road bridge... (more)

Pulling for all their worth, three big six-axles lug a 157 car Q324 out of Defiance, passing Hires Cemetery just outside of town. Just a few moments later, the sun would dip below the horizon, end... (more)

Day slowly turns into night as the three-track C&O cantilever stands guard over the W.E. of Vauces center siding outside of Chillicothe. As CSX's modernization of the C&O continues to progress up ... (more)

An eastbound rail train passes under the C&O cantilever at VA Cabin in sweet early morning light. It won't be long and scenes like this will be a thing of the past on the Northern.

A westbound coal train led by a pair of YN2 GE's crosses the massive Limeville-Sciotoville bridge. At the time of it's completion, it was the largest through truss bridge in the world, a true engi... (more)

Westbound 866 leaves Payne in a cloud of coal dust as it chases the setting sun behind NS 8098, the Conrail heritage unit.