A frigid Saturday morning finds the ND&W working east out of Okolona. Notice the severe lean of the train, a sign of the rough track conditions that plague this stretch of shortline railroading.

PREX 1603 leads 10 cars for Napoleon as they head east as they pass through the small town of Okolona. The scene is level. Train, not so much.

Heading east for Napoleon with 10 boxcars for Advanced Drainage Systems, the ND&W wobbles out of Okolona with PREX 1603, a former Seaboard GP16, in the lead. The scene is level... The train is not... (more)

Oooooops... A little shake-up in the daily routine has occurred as the ND&W's former Santa Fe GP20 finds itself a little "off track." Not entirely sure what has happened here just yet, but it look... (more)

On Christmas Eve, PREX 3054 a GP20, leads a train towards Napoleon on Pioneer Rail's Napoleon, Defiance and Western. Here the train passes through the sleepy town of Okalona, Ohio made even more s... (more)

There are not many places where you can be on a train chase and stop mid chase for a beer and still have plenty of time for your shot, but the slow moving Napoleon, Defiance and Western, the forme... (more)

Scenes like this used to be common on the MAW, but may not last for long on the new ND&W which is attacking decades of deferred maintenance with two track gangs working constantly to chip away at ... (more)

A westbound on the new ND&W rolls through Okolona.

A westbound leans past cars on a siding that looks better than the mainline in Okolona.

Heading back to the yard in Defiance, the ND&W crosses County Road 17 and passes a very ironic sign a few miles east of Okolona. I guess that farmer got the message, eh?

Working west in the sweet evening light, one of the former N&W GP38AC's leased to the Napoleon, Defiance & Western pilots a 20+ car train through downtown Okolona.

Making a rare Saturday turn to Napoleon, the MAW enters Okolona alongside Gessner Street with one of their former Santa Fe geeps in charge.

There's no better way to try something new, than to try it out on a train barely moving at jogging speed! The MAW creeps alongside County Road M1 with one of their former Santa Fe geeps up front.

Heading east to switch the industrial park in Napoleon, the MAW crew slowly crawls out of Okolona with one of their former Santa Fe GP7U's up front. The white truck along the side of the road is t... (more)

It's just another day at work for the engineer aboard one of the Maumee & Western's two former Santa Fe GP7U's as he carefully guides his train over the poorly maintained mainline near Okolona. Th... (more)