A empty hopper train with the Spirit of Dante, CSXT 391 as its sole power heads east over a small creek on the Northern Sub.
At track speed, a pair of NS catfish roll a train of MTY's back to Portsmouth on a rare Ohio low humidity summer evening. 1/40th second pan
NS 18M passes by one of the only remaining CPL's left on the Columbus District, and the last one still standing in Chillicothe. It's days are numbered though, as a new signal support is laying off... (more)
CSX Q310 passes over the small bridge for Crouse Chapel Rd, as the corn in the foreground waits to be harvested.
Once NS's primary power for intermodal trains, former SOU GP-50 7039 is bringing Lake Division local L55 toward Portsmouth. The crew just picked up outlawed local L52 at Lunbeck 2 miles back.
NS 218 having went in emergency about a mile away from this location, begins to pick up speed heading east, past the soybean field in the late evening light.
The engineer of 234 and the trainmaster talk by the farm crossing for a few minutes, before they inspect something on the lead engine.
After completing their work on the siding at Vauces, Q310 continues the trip east to Russell, KY.
A slug set sits at the east end of the Vauces Center Siding, waiting for a crew to eventually use this power to switch out the cars in the background.
M8M (extra section of 18M) crosses the bridge over Three Locks Rd in the background, with a lot of tank cars of hot Asphalt in tow.
NS 234 crosses the Scioto River in the late evening as it heads east on the NS Columbus District.
A local continues to do some switching on the Vauces Center Siding, under the old C&O cantilever signals at the west end of Vauces.
In the last light of the evening, CSXT 4795 leads coal loads from Peach Creek, WV for the CN at Lang Yard in Toledo.
In a few seconds NS coal train 858 will be knocking down the signal at CP-Lunbeck. This is one of two sections on the Portsmouth, OH to Columbus, OH line singletracked by the N&W in the early 1960... (more)
NS 218 crosses the Scioto River in the late afternoon. With the heartland corridor improvements, the code line on this bridge has been removed.
