After wandering out west on an oil train the week before, BNSF pulled a fast one and assigned this set of power to a CSX bound oil train. Here, K010 rolls across the Auglaize River bridge in Defia... (more)

A westbound CSX train rolls thru Defiance with the typical midwest railroading stuff in the background - the snow melter, crossing gate, my trusty Saturn and railfanning friend.

Stack train Q172 rolls past the cemetery just east of Defiance with it's usual topping of BNSF power.

On a snowy New Years eve, CNUR 5 works Johns Manville on the new Napoleon, Defiance and Western. this is the ex Maumee and Western and this locomotive was originally taken to the interchange tr... (more)

Pioneer Rail GP20 3054 rolls slowly past her newly arrived sister, GP16 1603 and leased NS GP38AC 4148 at Defiance, Ohio on Pioneer's new Napoleon, Defiance and Western

The Pioneer era has begun on the former Wabash Fifth District. Along with one of their own GP20's, Pioneer has brought in two NS GP38AC's to work the east end of the former Maumee & Western until ... (more)

In what will likely be my last look at the railroad that I grew up marveling over, Q167 crosses from main two to one at FC Tower and rolls by the three dead MAW engines that have served the east e... (more)

CNUR 5 assembles cars for interchange at the Maumee and Western Yard in Defiance, Ohio on a brutally windy, snowy and cold Boxing Day. This was the last day for operations of the Maumee and Wester... (more)

Making it's best lawn mower impersonation MAW 16 pulls cars out of Storage west of the CSX Diamond in Defiance. 3 years later MAW 16 has possibly seen here last days as she has been rode hard and... (more)

Number 5 backs a car into the Johns Manville siding in Defiance, Ohio. The line to the left leads across the Maumee River and onto Napoleon. Maumee and Western, Defiance, Ohio

Number 5 heads back to the yard after dropping cars at Johns Manville, i didn't know it at the time but the Maumee and Western Toolcar in the foreground which is the only piece of rolling stock wi... (more)

UP #5859 leads a long coal drag into Defiance Ohio on a cool September day.

Coal dust blows from the consist as T973 roars around the curve at Ashwood Road with a "Boxcar Logo" GEVO leading the way. The elevator in the background is a new addition to this scene, and once ... (more)

A Boxcar Logoed Gevo brings a train of Appalacian Coal west across the Maumee and Western Diamond at FC Tower in Defiance, Ohio. The amount of coal dust coming off of these westbound coal trains ... (more)

Q112 passes the old Hire Cemetary on the East side of Defiance, Ohio