The crew of the Buckeye Turn settles in for a long wait as the NS Dispatcher has just told them they will be sitting for 4 hours before entering NS trackage.

Former BN, now OHCR 5122 and former CSX, now OHCR 4602 wait by the Joyce ave. overpass in what is left of the last snowfall, they currently are waiting to be cut in on a through NS coal train.

An OC grain for Conrail pulls up the Fern Industrial Track.

An eastbound grain train for Mingo Junction rolls east. The rusty rail of the old PRR Panhandle demonstrates how busy the line was back in 1995.

OHCR hangs out on a siding paired with former Conrail Super 7, OHCR 4097. OHCR 3000 was acquired by Ohio Central last month.

A westbound loaded coal drag from the Nelms Mine a few miles east of this location at Miller Station, OH rolls through the small town of Dennison and past the restored PRR station. Please note, th... (more)

The Ohio Central's East Columbus Local sets out a cut of cars in the yard and then heads back east to do more work in the first snow of the year.

Fresh snow coats the rails as the 4025 leads coal loads north through the Southeast Ohio woods.

I was on my lunch break when I spotted the 1800 pull into the yard with a short ballast train. A few minutes later, he rolled west with the trademark burble of ALCo products.

A rebuilt GP9 and a GP35 swing out of the shadows and into the sun as they lead Ohio Central's Newark-Zanesville turn back to Newark on a pleasant spring evening.

The blue sky belies the chill as B23-7 4021 trundles north past the barren fields of central Ohio on it's way to Mount Vernon.

The tiny, nondescript building alongside Tunnel Hill Road near Crooksville, Ohio, has seen the trains of several railroads, the latest being the Ohio Central. The sign reads "Harrison Township Wes... (more)

A sign warns of a sharp turn for southbound traffic on North River Road West, but the Cleveland, Canton & Southern Railroad chose a more gentle turn when it wound it's tracks along the Muskingum R... (more)

Boxcars wait to be loaded outside the Purina dog food factory in Zanesville. The plant provides several loads a week for the Ohio Central.