The NS 1832 leads train 149 through the old Nickel Plate signals at KM in Vermilion, OH.

The NS 20E, led by a freshly rebuilt NS 4359, with the "Barcode Unit" 1111 trailing, over the Vermilion River Bridge in Vermilion, OH.

An eastbound NS train uses the connector to come off the Nickel Plate line to run the Chicago Line. Photo taken from Coen Road in Vermilion Ohio.

An eastbound NS train heads across the Chicago Line Bridge over the Vermilion River.

The engineer gives a friendly wave as NS 8393 crosses the bridge over Baumhart Road in Vermilion, OH. This engine was originally built as CR 6185 in 1993, and has since been sold off to Progress R... (more)

A colorful consist crosses the NS Chicago Line bridge over the Vermilion River on Memorial Day Weekend, 2019.

The NS 149 crosses the Nickel Plate bridge in Vermilion, Oh, as a couple of kayakers brave the high waters. The second engine is the NS 9254, which bears the paint scheme of the 25th Anniversary o... (more)

SD70ACe 1130 leads Norfolk Southern manifest freight 149 as it speeds west through the KM control point in Vermilion, Ohio. These are the last Nickel Plate signals still active in mainline service... (more)

PRLX 4845 Glides west past the now rare NKP Signal at KM headed west for Bellevue, KM is the last stronghold for the NKP signals between Bellevue and Cleveland

The late evening sun basks the small town of Vermilion, Ohio in beautiful golden light as eastbound train 14A rounds a curve in town with Union Pacific SD40N No. 1972 leading the way. This train o... (more)

Shortly after a line of showers moved through the area, Norfolk Southern train No. 149 throttles up as it passes the Nickel Plate Road signals at CP KM in Vermilion, Ohio with CEFX 1048 leading th... (more)

After holding at KM for eastbound traffic, Buffalo - Bellevue freight No. 149 rolls west on the former Nickel Plate through Vermilion, Ohio with the colorful Interstate Heritage locomotive leading... (more)

On a gorgeous November afternoon, Norfolk Southern Intermodal train 24Z roars over the Vermilion River in Vermilion, Ohio with the Honoring Our Veterans locomotive leading the train east toward Cl... (more)

One of the few remaining NKP signals between Bellevue and Buffalo still stands guard at KM on Vermilion's east side as empty coal train 567 gets back on the move on a beautiful spring evening.

765 is nearing the end of her one-day jaunt from New Haven, Indiana to Cleveland. The second part of her two-day ferry move would eventually place her in Ashtabula for weekend excursion runs