Not all rail infrastructure was in great shape during the early 1970s...

A view of the action below at Queensgate on a rainy Sunday morning, not a GE to be seen.

With the Conrail era about to come to a close when I heard that their E's were pulling a special out of Cincinnati I made the early morning trip out of Louisville to catch them.The clouds that d... (more)

Penn Central's mail & express train to Chicago, Getting ready to leave C.U.T.

Richard Beal photo While waiting to board a Cincy-Danville fantrip behind the Royal BC Hudson, Richard shot this classic lashup of all the SR GP40X's on a hotshot, lashup is 7001-7000-7002

An auto train pulls out of the Ohio River Valley and crosses onto the old B&O at Winton Place. S268 is an extra Louisville-Cleveland that was extended all the way to Doremus, NJ. Cash for clunke... (more)

Southbound NS train with UP and NS power heads across the Ohio river into Kentucky.

A rack train heads for Detroit as it rolls over the viaduct at CT Tower. I find it intersting that the common SD40 of my youth is now something I look forward to seeing.

Return home from Summerail entailed a side trip to the industrial "burbs". Sad to CSX ignore the old B&O main.

A railfan first. After living in the Queen City for 26 years it's always a treat to find new photo angles. Today my Dad decided to test his Sea Ray in the Ohio River, so I couldn't help but bring ... (more)

CSX 6436, sporting two different number boards, leads J786 at the west end of double track at CW Cabin, just east of St. Joe. The appropriately named St. Joe Job is the last remaining regularly sc... (more)

A couple of light CSX yard engines trundle towards the end of the mammoth Queensgate yard complex, looking empty snd slmodt rural at its northernmost location. The former B&O main line on the righ... (more)

The CSX Office Car Special glides into Queensqate yard under the cover of darkness. The train will layover overnight, and leave first thing in the morning. Taken from the Hopple Street Viaduct, wh... (more)

Cincinnati Railway #30, a GP30 of NKP heritage, leads a trial run of Cincinnati Railways's new dinner train on the Penny's former Oasis Subdivision. Hard to believe 30 years ago this was 40mph and... (more)