Ghosts of the IC..... That is the best way to explain this.... During the last light of day IC 1030 and sister unit IC 1000 the only SD70 with white frame stripes, flies through Kankakee passing t... (more)

Happy Little Accidents..... The shot was intentional.... however... it was not planned as a zoom-pan.... with the Metra train racing for Chicago, the CPKC train sitting and the UP YPRCP shoving ba... (more)

After a few years of trying I finally got to Bensenville early enough to catch CPKC I41 headed back home with a trio of EMDs finest, this train is actually UP YPRCP a daily turn from Chicago Provi... (more)

WE 7003 an EMD SD40-2 and WE 6988 also an EMD SD40-2 former FURX, this unit in a previous life was a SD40, lead a loaded stone train into Hartland Yard where they will tie the train down for the d... (more)

CSX I009 flies through Grafton OH with 2 SD70MAC rebuilds now EMD SD70MACe

Flying through Peru Center just immediately east of Willard, M224 with CSXT 5464 an ES40DC heads for New Castle with loaded Autoracks for Lordstown and Jessup/Baltimore MD

Wheeling on the Wheeling...... WE 7004 and EMD SD40-2 that is PTC equipped like all the other 7000 series SD40-2s, wastes no time flying over the Huron River in Monroeville on the original Wheelin... (more)

Wheeling 7012 an EMD SD40-2 leads a loaded rock train through Mini Plant at Bellevue Ohio with a quartet of 7000 series PTC equipped locomotives required to move trains over the NS/CSX.

With one of the nastiest BNSF leaders that I have ever seen, I was still happy it was not an NS AC44C6M, not that I dont like them but they are just so common in the reality that is now railroadin... (more)

NS 60X frac sand train, bound for Mingo Jct, in October Fall Foliage picks up speed through 234 in Huron Ohio, the leader is CP 8757 a GE ES44AC, a special unit done by CP in commemoration of Oran... (more)

NS 11Q with NS 1844 an EMD SD70ACC flys west through a very photogenic scene in Huron Ohio, just behind me is the Control Point known as Barrows, formerly known as East Shinrock.

Headed eastbound on the Sandusky District after working Sandusky Yard NS 266 led by BNSF 3680 a GE ET44C4 passes through Southwest Street in Bellevue Ohio, NS 266 is a daily intermodal from Chicag... (more)

NS 23K Flies over the Vermilion River in Vermilion Ohio with stacks bound for Chicago, this would be one of the last 23Ks I would manage to photograph before NS would reroute them over the Chicago... (more)

Derailment in the A Yard in Bellevue, Ohio.

NKP 757 sits where she should have been all along at the Mad River Museum in Bellevue Ohio with a new coat of well deserved paint on the engine at least.