Foreign power is pretty common these days on the NS Chicago Line, but a true CSX leading is still a bit of a rarity. Shown here, what looks like a fresh rebuild leads a frac sand train across the... (more)

It's pretty rare to see an SD40E leading a stack train on the NS Chicago mainline. Shown here, the recently added train L15 heads west through Vermilion, OH, with a throwback leader.

The evening southbound manifest has foreign power with Union Pacific and BNSF power as it heads towards Youngstown on a steamy summer day.

Aboard a very late Q573 we meet an also very late Q574 near CT Junction.

CPL ghosts- Heavy morning fog envelops the Norfolk & Western color position lights on Norfolk Southern’s Peavine in southern Ohio. These intermediates near Rarden are like many others along the ... (more)

NS intermodal train 200 races the sunset through the cornfields of Western Ohio in the small community of Somerville on the final evening of July.

As work continues on the move of the former B&O / CH&D Depot in Hamilton from its original location to a new location a few hundred feet away (still trackside but farther away from active rails), ... (more)

A rare appearance of KCSM power is on the NS 22k as it rolls alongside Lake Erie.

Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor BLE 905 leads ex. DMIR SD38 BLE 862 as they depart from Conneaut, Ohio and cross over Conneaut Creek with a few bad order ore cars in tow. The crew came north and... (more)

A well worn CSX YN2 AC4400 leads coal train C547 northbound on Main 1 of the former B&O Cincinnati to Toledo mainline in Springdale.

Running on CSX’s former C&O main this EB grain train rounds a sweeping curve as Summerail participants look on admiringly. I sometimes pays to hike a little.

The Age of Steam's eclectic collection is a great launching point for railfans to dig into small, obscure railroads. One such railroad is the Montour, a coal hauling line in southwest Pennsylvania... (more)

Nickel Plate Road 765 is seen stomping past Milepost 42 on one of the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad's, "Steam in the Valley" excursions. This remote location is a favorite amongst vide... (more)

A lone CSX GP38-3 rebuild, CSXT 2003, rests on an old spur track off of the Cincinnati Terminal Subdivision mainline in Springdale on a beautiful summer evening.

A pair of classic GP's lead a train of empty stone hoppers as they head north at Beartown Road in Columbia, Ohio on the RJ Corman's Cleveland Lines. These cars are heading north to be interchanged... (more)