Nickel Plate Road GP30 900 (NKP roster 900-909) Photo from my collection, no photographer list on slide.

Norfolk & Western SD45 1724 with Hi-short hood.

Southern Railway GP30 2551; SR roster 2525-2644. Only Southern and Norfolk & Western ordered GP30s with high short hoods, but unlike N&W, Southern specified the short hood as front.

NS 7305 sits with an autorack train just west of Bellevue on the Fostoria District. Signal outages on this line created a massive parking lot of trains, including this one, and the NKP 765, which... (more)

Summerail in Marion is better for many reasons,high among those being better proximity to Bellevue and Fostoria. Here an eastbound “one unit wonder” ethanol train is arriving. I remember when no... (more)

Built for MP, inherited by UP now working in a great heritage scheme this unit turning back toward Brewster from whence it came.

When the Norfolk & Western took over the Wabash, it inherited a group of eight FM Train Masters that had been rebuilt with Alco 16-251B engines. N&W 3594 posed at Bellevue, OH, beneath the smokest... (more)

An impressive late-1960s sight at the Norfolk & Western's big yard at Bellevue, OH, was the trios of ex-Wabash FM Train Masters that worked the hump. These massive locomotives had been re-engined ... (more)

The Last. Unbeknownst to me this locomotive NS 8806 would be the one of the last if not the last NS C40-9 that I would end up shooting before they all faced the same fate. rebuild. Progress is wha... (more)

Hurry Up And Wait! NS LB31 with the NS 6107 and NS 15E with the NS 7576 wait for their respective signal to head out of Bellevue Yard.

Ghost of Yesterday? UP 6290 from NS 10E heads back to the Bellevue Locomotive shop via the Duck Under for the Hump, with the Wheeling Locomotives in the background still kind of reminds you of the... (more)

Two of a Kind? The Old Way??? WE 227 is seen from above getting ready to enter the Bellevue A Yard the old way with Two out of Three Tigers "Two out of Three Ain't Bad". Those of you tha... (more)

WE 227 is seen here crawling into the Mini Plant at Bellevue, Ohio off of the Brewster Connection with WE 6389 and EMD SD40-2 in the lead.