With the last remnants of fall colors clinging to the trees NS 17M shows off the current state of power on lesser NS trains with rented junk up front reminiscent of CSX 10 years ago.

A fresh looking road slug set works the Toledo Docks yard.

The California Zepher is rolling into Princeton under one of the soon to be replaced classic signal bridges along the Mendota.

There's often plenty of color to be found around Galesburg yard.

Today's Q110 has three different CSX paint scheme variants on the point.

NS 14Q usually doesn't get into Toledo until evening - so seeing it at mid-day going through Vickers is unusual. It turns out it's really the prior day's 14Q running pretty late. The power combo... (more)

A sunday afternoon westbound light power move is rolling through western Ohio with NS 9234, GMTX 9023, NS 7534, NS 9224, NS 9972, BNSF 9544, BNSF 5786, NS 7547.

15Q is cruising through Butler with a solo dash 9 in the lead.

Black horses in the fields of Indiana.

21G rolls west through Edgerton on a sunny October day.

Today's Q150 (running as L150) is about to cross Union Street as they enter Walbridge yard to do their work in a scene that looks like 10 years ago with the YN2 painted AC44 being the newest engin... (more)

With a cool "old school" EMD lashup of SD40-2, SD50, GP38-2, GP38-2 all in matched current paint scheme this "yard job" is heading from the docks over to Rossford.

After leading empty ethanol train 69Q west from NJ the cab signal leader is being cut off in Toledo leaving the DME 6072 / ICE 6421 / CP 5833 trio to continue the trip west to Chicago.

A NS yard job with an ex-Oakway running backwards leading a BNSF C44-9W and a train of empty grain hoppers rolls on what once upon a time was the LS&MS mainline to Chicago - now a spur serving one... (more)

Stack trains don't stop here yet, but in a few short months the new CSX North Baltimore terminal will be open for business. In the meantime Q156 flys by at track speed as sun sets on a late Octobe... (more)