4s are wild today as NS 4441 ( an AC44C6M) leads train 44M across the Vermilion River on July 4th. This is an as needed grain train that usually runs once a year or so.

Looking like it has has no use in some time. The black tank just ahead of the cab looked like maybe it held water, perhaps to add weight. Originally LIRR.

The engineer at the controls has a steady hand on the throttle of I&O GP38-2 No. 3527 as it leads the Blue Ash Local across Alliance Road on an industrial spur that serves the H.B. Fuller facility... (more)

On a hot and humid summer day, a south (east) bound intermodal winds through the Scioto River valley along former N&W rails. I'm also happy to report this batch of corn will indeed be knee high by... (more)

After working the WestRock and H.B. Fuller facilities on a nearby spur, a pair of Indiana & Ohio geeps lead the Blue Ash Local southbound on the former CL&N mainline near Milepost 44 of the Blue A... (more)

A pair of I&O geeps lead the Blue Ash Local southbound on the former CL&N mainline at the replica depot and museum in Silverton.

Travel to Summerail usually entails about five days of railfanning. Here we catch a former GP40 and a local crew working some interchange.

NS GP60 No. 7136 pokes its way along the connection from the Dayton District mainline to the P&G facility in Ivorydale.

NS GP60 No. 7136 leads local freight T97 under the CJ252 signals and past the former Jim Beam Distillery building in Carthage.

A loaded coal train knocks down the 104 signal whose days are numbered. This is one of a few remaining holdouts from the Conrail era on this line between Delaware and Crestline. The new signals ha... (more)

Our oldest of three daughters, 11 year old Kira, exchanges waves with the engineer of the LM&M's Princess Express excursion on the outskirts of Lebanon, Ohio.

The NS 206 rolls across the Vermilion River as the fisherman watch from below.

Purchased by the N&W and leased to the Erie-Lackawanna were 19 EMD SDP45s. Upon return to the N&W, the Conrail name was painted out and a small "NW" was added below the cab numbers. Or... (more)

With an ex-CP GMD SD40-2 in the lead, the Ohio Central's ZVNK crew brings a stone extra around the bend in Licking Township, Ohio as they head towards Zanesville. The block of trash cars at the he... (more)

N&W high-hood GP35 212 at Bellevue, Ohio on January 15, 1984. N&W units numbers 200 to 239 were built between 11/63 and 4/64.