With 8 sand hoppers for storage in tow, Vermilion Valley Railroad's 8310 drops down into the Wabash River Valley between Foster and Olin, Indiana. Steve Smedley photo

Beautifullly restored former Erie Mining Co 4210 sits in the one stall enginehouse of Olin Locomotive Works. The shop does all mechanical work for Indiana Boxcar's locomotive fleet. The F9 is now ... (more)

Indiana Boxcar's Olin Locomotive Works is nearing completion on a rebuild of former Louisville & Nashville Railroad SD40 1245, built in 1970. The locomotive is framed in the cab window of former E... (more)

Vermilion Valley Railroad F9 4210 and Chesapeake & Indiana Railroad GP38-2 5115 team up to switch a storage car at the Olin, Indiana operation on Friday, December 8, 2017. The locomotives were ... (more)

Vermilion Valley Railroad F9 #4210 and Chesapeake and Indiana Railroad GP38-2 #5115 pose together during an afternoon of switching within the Olin plant complex. 4210 and 5115 were recently resto... (more)

A whole variety of power sits in the Vermilion Valley deadline, awaiting to be repaired, rebuilt or scrapped.

IBCX GP9R 4618, a freshly rebuilt Geep of GTW and CV heritage, sits in its Camp Chase livery on the property of sister railroad Vermilion Valley, who rebuilt the unit.

Two GP9 variants, an original ex-BN/NP unit and a rebuilt ex-CN unit, sit on the VVRR property waiting for their next call to service. Photo taken on VVRR property with permission and supervision.

A recently acquired ex-CSX SD40-2 and an ex-DMIR SD-M sit at the Vermillion Valley RR complex in Olin, IN. Photo taken on private property with permission and supervision.

IBCX GP10 8310, painted for IBCX operation Vermillion Valley Railway, sits on their property. Photo taken on private property with permission and supervision.

The Vermillion Valley Railroad's two F9s, SD-M, GP9Rm, GP-9, and crane "Erwin" sit inside their yard complex on a chilly November afternoon. Where else can you see an arrangement of moti... (more)

NYC Vet Dies Soon This old New York Central passenger locomotive has already lost it's torpedo tubes and high short hood, the rest of her won't last much longer. The scrappers will have h... (more)

Perfect Christmas Tree is Home Now. After a search through the woods of Illiana we had found a nice tree growing along the V V Main. The conductor, with chainsaw in hand, lopped this beauty... (more)

A beautiful day begins. On this beautiful spring morning at V V's Olin headquarters we will soon make the trip west to Danville, IL, to pick up two F9'S recently delivered by the CSX that o... (more)

A Pair of F's for the V V The V V's newest units are pulled back to the safety of Olin by two V V Geeps and their caboose. Neither of the F's were operable on this day but since this photo ... (more)