Dusk And Decrepit | As the DPU on a loaded coal train streaks past, night falls over the Tamora, NE grain elevator switching power on a cool Sunday, September 1, 2024 evening. To the left i... (more)

Relics Of The Past | Parked on a side track at Tamora, NE, a pair of ancient EMDs are looking great beneath a clear dusk sky on the evening of Sunday, September 1, 2024. To the left is an e... (more)

Former WSOR GP9R #753 under the stars at Starke County Co-Op in Hamlet, IN.

Indiana Box Car Corporation GP38-2 5115's heritage should be pretty obvious, given the high short hood, the paint scheme and the "F" on the frame on the long-hood end (along with the che... (more)

Indiana Boxcar Corporation SDM 818 and Chesapeake & Indiana GP38-2 5152 are seen near the Co-Alliance Grain elevator. Built in April 1959 as Duluth Missabe & Iron Range SD9 172, back when 2-8-8-4... (more)

Former DMIR SD-18 184 is now now sits in storage with the Vermilion Valley Railroad in Covington Indiana.

In better shape than her sister the IBCX 4214, the 4210 sits in the shop at the Vermilion Valley Rail Road site at Flex-N-Gate. About to get some much needed TLC the 4210 has better days ahead.

This old F9 finds itself on the Vermilion Valley Railroad in Covington, Indiana. Not winning any beauty contests but look at that AC. Built to please.

Commodity Switching Co. 616 with a stunning Christmas sunset in the background.

Commodity Switching Co. 616 with a stunning Christmas sunset in the background.

After putting their train together in La Crosse, IBCX 814 leads another SD-M and a GP38-2 High Hood north out of town, with the destination of Union Mills, IN.

A rather rare bird works at the elevator in Tamora, NE.

Power for the Central Valley Ag elevator.

IBCX 8340 now working for the Youngstown & Southern is still wearing for the most part its PAL paint as it leads train YS1 through the interlocking at Graham preparing for the shove into Norfolk S... (more)

IBCX 813 sits tied down with some empty ballast cars on the Chesapeake & Indiana Railway in La Crosse, IN.