Three BIP EMDs climb above Parkersburg on a perfect May evening. switching together a train for the chemical plant across the river in Belpre. The Ohio River bridge is the highlight of BIP's remna... (more)

Christmas Eve finds a coal drag rolling up the KNWA, led by NS's Virginian heritage unit.

KN380 rolls through Addison, finding a patch of sun. Between Hobson and Kanauga, Kanwaha River trains run over the CSX Pomeroy Subdivision, in a trackage rights agreement dating back to the Hockin... (more)

Nearly back to Edon, OH, where the run started, gorgeous, freshly-restored NKP 358 brings up the rear passing under an old wooden bridge used as a farm road in years past.

The famed NKP Berk charges out from the treeline, about to enter the third state on its 'Tri-State Excursion'.

The clock is nearing midnight as CSX I142 knocks down the CPL bracket at Swanders. B&O relics still dot the horizon along the Toledo Sub in Ohio for now.

A classic Western Maryland look, as WM-painted FP9 243 runs over "home" rails on its way towards Elkins. To the left is a connection across the Tygart River to the B&O Coal and Coke line... (more)

With cement loads and a block of manifest traffic picked up at North Vernon, L452 grinds through a somewhat surprisingly hilly region of Indiana, passing a vintage B&O signal and a bridge that ind... (more)

CSX L302 tops the hill and splits the vintage Pere Marquette searchlights east of Lake Odessa, the furthest set west. To the left, the grade down and up can be seen, and to the right, the classic ... (more)

A less common railfan perspective for the GLC's geeps, we're looking out the open door of the Owosso shops at the deadline, headed up by 391. This GP35 has since been reactivated. Photo taken ... (more)

Two GP35s of Ann Arbor pedigree (bracketing a GP38-2 from Penn Central) bring a long train south out of Clare. Note the code pole behind the power with crossarms for both the Ann Arbor and C&O, a ... (more)

Running through some nice fall color and over new welded rail, GP35 390 leads a train south towards Owosso, as it has for six decades.

Norfolk and Western 2156 is escorted out of Portsmouth, leaving its familiar Appalachia behind one last time on its way back to St. Louis.

Like ships in a storm, KN380 is in the trough of a wave of erosion flung uphill from the Ohio River. This piece of railroad, through various owners, has always been a battleground, as evidenced by... (more)

A rebuilt geep tiptoes over Northville Road to clear the north end of the siding, and reverse back to Plymouth.