Norfolk Southern OCS Train - NS 953-18 Westbound through Butler Indiana - Detroit Michigan to Kansas City, MO - NS 8100 (Nickel Plate Road Heritage) and 1070 (Wabash Heritage) lead the way

CP 8010 leads 734 off the NS Chicago Line around the WYE to the Huntington District heading for Detroit.

Baltimore bound pig train 24M passes through CP 360 on NS's Chicago Line outside Butler, IN. After receiving a report about this train, and traveling 90 minutes to this location, I arrived to see ... (more)

18M Crosses the ex Wabash main from Detroit to Kansas City. CP 358 feature some of the last remaining G type signals on the Chicago Line.

An extra move of freight from Detroit crosses into Indiana at sunset.

Westbound NS 3638 Freight on the Chicago Sub in Butler Indiana in front of the Bunge Grain Elevators

Westbound NS 3638 Freight on the Chicago Sub in Butler Indiana

Just crossing into Indiana from Ohio is a Norfolk Southern intermodal train heading west to Fort Wayne on September 26, 2018. Leading this train is a pair of NS AC44C6M diesels - 4074 and 4153 - w... (more)

NS was nice enough to cap off our day on the Chicago Line with some color to brighten up the drab, snow-less winter landscape.

I've done a few reflection photos in my 27 years of railroad photography, but I believe this is my first utilizing ice.

After years of running 10,000'+ Kansas City-Harrisburg 20T/21T intermodals after the St Louis pickup, or running frequent I0T/I1T extras to St Louis, NS added a dedicated pair of St Louis intermod... (more)

Hot automotive train 171 has a long way to go, becoming UP ASMSP at Salem, IL and terminating outside Houston at Spring, TX.

"Round on the end & high in the middle" A SD70achoo leads a freight over the IN/OH state line.

"Smell ya later" Running as NS train CPRS650-25, St Paul, MN to Albany, NY ethanol CP 650-740 passes NS 14Q-30. 14Q is holding out for 21T to get onto the Huntington District, so the T... (more)

"At least it's not a Catfish"... an SD60E leads a short Proviso, IL/UP-Conway, PA freight with a cut of 10 TTX flats with John Deere tractors.