Built for Kelley’s Creek & Northwestern on to BC&G then OHCR this engine tripped a synapse and I connected it with my old “C&O Power” book. I remarked to one of the old roundhouse guys that... (more)

NS train 315 catches the golden light as it crosses the Vermilion River in Vermilion Ohio.

NS 1805 partners with a WFRX, former BNSF SD70MAC, on a mild late fall afternoon as it leads NS train 55G, south through Hamilton, Ohio, bound for Loudon, Tennessee's Staley Tate & Lyle grain faci... (more)

NS 16N passes by a flurry of boating activity in the Vermilion, OH River.

The NS 36N casts a perfect reflection on "Lake Shinrock", which is actually a very flooded cornfield in Shinrock Ohio.

The Ohio Rail Experience ran a train from Leipsic Ohio to Dundee (Diann) Michigan and return on Sunday June 22, 2025, on the hottest day of 2025. Here we see CRC 7544 heads back to Leipsic after m... (more)

Nickel Plate Road 765 nears Edon and the end of its all-day excursion to Jonesville on a hot June evening.

Conrail COSY9, Columbus to Syracuse, approaches the old  Reynolds Road grade crossing in Mentor, Ohio, on December 29, 1978. Power is a Conrail blue SD45 and GP38, both of Penn Central heritage. ... (more)

The Erie heritage signal beckons toward an eastbound as CR 8126 coupled with a Santa Fe SD45u brings a westbound into Marion, OH as clouds build on a spring afternoon. The Erie and NYC (former Big... (more)

I am fairly certain that this is the Apollo, AP1, the Newark to Chicago train that was carved out of Conrail's opening-day ops in order to ensure that there was till competition. Interestingly, th... (more)

My Berkshire! Mess with it and pull back a shredded hand! He just looks that way. Somewhat aloof but sociable the roundhouse cat is actually one of two. A roundhouse would seem incomplete with... (more)

All spiffied up and looking good, with hopes of restoration in the not too distant future. With all the ex-MCRR steamers still around it must have been quite an operation in steam. A great Memb... (more)

A Columbus to Selkirk train heads east on the Water Level Route as it passes through Mentor Ohio on a chilly December morning. Power is a GP40 and a U33B.

IORY Honoring Vets First in the database of this Special Scheme, idling on assignment for evening yard switching. Recently painted on an ex-BNSF Dash 9.

Former Penn Central F7(A) #1854 is first out in this lineup at Collinwood on December 28, 1978. A little on-line research shows that this one-time New York Central unit went to scrap in February o... (more)