With the sunlight just starting to fade, a BNSF ( sporting a "warbonnet" paint scheme ) leads the NS 265 past the former Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Depot in Vermilion, Ohio.

The Norfolk Southern Heritage unit passes by the trees in bloom at the rail park in Vermilion Ohio.

Train L15, the Sandusky Ohio to Maple Heights local, sweeps around the curve, passing the old NYC milepost at Joppa Road near Vermilion Ohio.

Between the lateness of the hour, and the fact that the Conrail heritage was trailing, there was only one location to shoot this train. Shown here with light fading, the 269 crosses the Vermilion ... (more)

During a winter snow squall, the NS 23G rolls through the Main Street crossing in Vermilion, Ohio. About the only thing you can clearly see in this picture, is the red X-Box flashing, indicating t... (more)

The NS 315 catches the last of the sun and crosses the Vermilion River, while a couple of fisherman watch from below.

After a couple of months with nothing but a local running on the Nickel Plate Line through Vermilion, trains have finally returned. Shown here, the NS 315 clears the signals at KM and heads west t... (more)

With a fresh recrew on board, loaded coal train 778 passes the bright yellow remains of a soybean field at Stanley Road in Vermilion Ohio.

It's been the week for NS Heritage units - and leading, no less - here in Ohio. Shown here is the Nickel Plate heritage unit leading a sand train over the Vermilion River.

We had gotten word that the Nacala Logistics locomotive move was only about 25 miles from us. Never thought we would have to wait almost 3 hours, but there were plenty of trains to help kill the t... (more)

Quite possibly the roughest looking of all 20 NS heritage units, the Lackawanna, crosses the Vermilion River as fellow photographer Tim Wakeman takes his shot.

A rather unique power movement through Vermilion, Ohio today. There were 4 of these Nacala Logistics units on the NS 054, reportedly bound for Mozambique.

Fall is in the air and the sun is low in the sky as train 315, with local legend Danny Whitt running, makes its way across the Vermilion River in Vermilion, Ohio.

Foreign power is pretty common these days on the NS Chicago Line, but a true CSX leading is still a bit of a rarity. Shown here, what looks like a fresh rebuild leads a frac sand train across the... (more)

It's pretty rare to see an SD40E leading a stack train on the NS Chicago mainline. Shown here, the recently added train L15 heads west through Vermilion, OH, with a throwback leader.