Wheeling and Lake Erie 6382 switching Rook

WLE 4003, 6353, 103, 302 sit in front of the Rook yard office

WE 6383 EMD SD40-2 "J.J. Gonzales" heads west through Prairie Road in Bellevue, OH on the Lake Shore Connection to wye the train and head west to Toledo.

Getting an earlier start than usual, the crew aboard the WE 6354 eases their train down to a stop to wait out cross traffic at Ironville. Todays train is led by a matching trio of SD40-2's, a rath... (more)

WE 6383 EMD SD40-2 "J.J. Gonzales" pauses at Hartland Yard on the point of WE 223 bound for Toledo. This train will work Hartland Yard, and pick up paper work before departing for Toledo. Veteran ... (more)

A trio of W&LE locomotives power a short west bound mixed freight towards Bellevue Ohio. In lead is an ex Rio Grande SD40T-2.

W&LE engines 303, 302, 4001, and 4003 lead train 212 through Conotton, Ohio, on 8/24/13. 303 and 302 are still in Rio Grande paint schemes.

It was always fun chasing the WLE when they would run the ore trains to Baltimore via the old B&O route. Pictured here westbound with tunnel motors 5413 and 5391 in trail.

WLE 3068 receives its TW out of Rook as the cross the Whiskey Run Viaduct across the parkway West

WLE going over of the Sudan Bridge.

In the last light of an early autumn evening, the westbound Wheeling & Lake Erie trackage rights train splits the original Wheeling & Lake Erie searchlights at Williston.

The Eastbound Wheeling and Lake Erie transfer from NS sits on the main at Yeomans, crewless, with the special Ohio Bicentennial GP35 on the point.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? For years I've wonder if the Parkway South was designed to fit between the pillars of the this PWV bridge, or was the bridge altered to allow the Parkway t... (more)

643 Pulling out of Rook Yard going to West Land