The 234 passes over the Scioto River which has a decent flow today due to the heavy rains to the north a couple days before.

Running long hood forward, the L52 with 12 cars in tow head along the single to Portsmouth.

The NS 423 passes by a welded rail train and some other cars sitting in Renick Yard on the south side of Chillicothe.

The NS 194 crosses over the Scioto River in Chillicothe. This is one of two sections of single track on The Columbus District, for some point the NW pulled the 2nd main through most of Ross County... (more)

The NS 218 heads through Chillicothe on the single main.

The NS 234 container train rounds one of many curves on the single track portion of the NS Columbus District between Lunbeck and Omega.

UP power pulls the NS 272 past a parked train east on the NS Columbus District.

Norfolk Southern steam special featuring N&W 1218. Tom Golden photo.

Norfolk Southern's Office Car Special makes an early morning run through Chillicothe, Ohio on the N&W Columbus District. The train left Bellevue, Ohio with a destination of Bluefield, W. Va. where... (more)

Union Pacific locomotive #4683, an EMD SD70M is the sole power for Norfolk Southern 861 (empty coal) this afternoon. The crew is slowing for a red block at Hopetown just north of Chillicothe, Ohio... (more)

Westbound Norfolk Southern intermodal train 233 pounds the equilateral turnout at CP Lunbeck south of Chillicothe, Ohio this evening. Single track begins at this location and ends at CP Omega 8 mi... (more)

Trains only arrive early when you don't want them to.... Hoping to capture a few moves AFTER sunset with the flashes but K428 arrived a little earlier then expected. Although not what was planned... (more)

With all of the talk of an NS/CP merger it seemed a coincidence that we would see a Canadian Pacific AC44 leading a Norfolk Southern ethanol train east out of Chillicothe, Ohio on Sunday afternoon... (more)

A clean ES40DC leads NS' hottest train, NS 218 the UPS train, down the former N&W line from Columbus to Portsmouth. 218 wastes no time, and after an intense 20-mile chase I was only a couple secon... (more)

A pair of Canadian Pacific units lead a eastbound manifest through the hills of southern Ohio.