Twilight is rapidly approaching as B41 heads back to Toledo after switching NorthStar BlueScope Steel near Delta. The gargantuan steel mill looms behind the former DT&I Delta Hill as the local ea... (more)
Marion to Elkhart train 311 roars up the 0.5% grade between North Manchester and Silver Lake in the first rays of a winter sunrise.
178 passes the hulk of a Penn Central E8 as it eases into Bellevue...a study in contrast between different eras of EMD locomotive design.
A westbound RoadRailer train passes through the small community of Old Fort in the late evening.
The soft glow of an early winter sunset illuminates the massive Big Four Viaduct at Sidney as an eastbound glides across behind a couple of modern GEs.
A grain train roars down the former C&O between Walbridge and Fostoria, leaving a mini snowstorm in its wake.
The pair of warbonnets on Q394 are illuminated by the last rays of a cold December sun as the train approaches Sugar Ridge Road north of Pemberville.
H793, a Fostoria-based local, gets back underway after waiting for a signal into the center siding at the West End Pemberville. Note the Chessie caboose bringing up the rear, just the way it shou... (more)
With a roar, H793 accelerates back up to track speed after clearing a slow order at the East End Pemberville. The hi-rail truck under the signal bridge is a welder working on one of the switch fr... (more)
"CSXT 6444 conductor requests three-step, over." H793 gets tied back onto their train after setting off a car at Luckey Farmers CoOp north of Bradner.
Fostoria-based local H793 has its short train rolling right along as it crosses Main Street on the south edge of Bradner.
K223 has just crossed the Saint Joseph River as it passes a decrepit barn near the town of St. Joe.
Eastbound K223 passes over the hot box/dragging equipment detector at MP 93 as it nears Defiance on a mild November afternoon.
Dawn finds southbound 13K knocking down an approach indication at MP 50, fifty miles from where they got onto the Marion District at Goshen. The long night is almost over for this crew, as a taxi... (more)
Enroute to the former Conrail Goodman Yard in Marion, NS 312 heads south past the PRR position lights at CP 19.