A westbound W&LE lead by SD40-3 3034 a former UP unit meets an eastbound lead by GP40 301 just east of Bellevue Ohio.

102.5 WDVE Rocks! Perched at the top of Green Tree hill, the studios of the western PA radio heavyweight have a commanding view of Rook Yard, and on this night a pair of Rio Grande a... (more)

Wheeling train 775 is in the process of doubling up 60 loads of stone. After the train is together, they will enter NS tracks down to Bellevue before getting on WLE tracks. Note:The bridge in th... (more)

Ex-DRGW/WE 3080, former GP40.

Wheeling job 663 shoves two empty box cars that they have pulled from International Paper toward the outbound train.

Wheeling 273 heads south through Navarre on its return trip from Canton to Brewster on a bleak winter day.

WE 303 (GP40-3, ex-DRGW/WE 3085 - former GP40) and WE 2650 (GP35, ex-SOU/NS 2650) at Rook Yard. I shot these units during engineer training on the W&LE. The students were sent to Rook for remote c... (more)

Wheeling train 224 heads east towards Hartland Yard with a train from the CN.

I almost gave up on following this train at Longview, but I'm glad I continued east as this was the last ore train I was able to shoot on the W&LE in 2009.

The Wheeling train from Heartland yard to Toledo now running as KL95 on NS is coming across the Maumee river on their home stretch into CN Lang Yard.

Ah. Mid-train helpers shoving ore on the former P&WV. Classic EMD's, classic paint scheme.

With the help of lens coatings and a split neutral density filter, the interesting sky retains it's character as the WE 344 passes by this rural scene.

This empty hopper train arrived in Rook with a pair of unrepainted SD40-2s on the point. As luck would have it, those units were set off and the Wheeling's two Tunnelmotors took the train west to... (more)

I'm not sure what the odds are of seeing four Rio Grande units in the same place in 2009, but it probably doesn't happen very often! (The fourth unit is #302, barely visible at far left).