A momentary splash of sunshine illuminates the brightly colored locomotive consist of S393 as it crosses the Auglaize River near downtown Defiance.

One of the two remaining red and orange GP40's on the I&O roster adds a splash of color to an otherwise dreary day as the 400 train eases downhill through Thackery. The massive grain elevator's G... (more)

With the construction of a new connection track in Claypool between the Chicago & Marion Districts, new signals are sprouting up to replace the PRR position lights which were originally installed ... (more)

Four SD80MACs are on the rear of empty coal hoppers tied down just south of the yard at South Fork.

At the control point appropriately named "Turnpike," a pair of SD40-2s roar out of Walbridge Yard with a lengthy Q231. In moments, the train will duck under the Ohio Turnpike and assault the sens... (more)

Once host to two locals and regular coal trains, Norfolk Southern's Michigan City Branch now sees only the Argos - based L43. A sunny mid-April morning finds the train clumping across the former ... (more)

On a frosty Sunday morning, empty hoppers roll east behind a single GE as they split the intermediate signals between Miller City and Leipsic. Besides the snow and ice, the switch broom on the fr... (more)

Ten minutes after sunrise, a long westbound stack train catches the first golden rays of sun as it leaves Hamler behind. Frost still covers the remains of a harvested cornfield on this chilly aut... (more)

The small town quiet of Quincy is briefly interrupted by the blaring of an air horn as IN 1601 brings a short train east. Up ahead, the crew will set out the head car at Sun-Gro before continuing... (more)

As the snow continues to fall, 19K makes the "hard right turn" off of the Chicago Line and onto the Marion Branch. For two blocks the line does some quasi-street running, splitting the northboun... (more)

No chance of forgetting your mileage to Chicago from here (via the Monon, anyway), as the milepost location is given in three different places. Here we see J772 about to drop this northbound-on... (more)

On a rather nasty spring day, an eastbound freight is spied between a couple of derelict Massey-Ferguson combines on the outskirts of Holgate.

The small town quiet of McComb is interrupted by the passage of eastbound intermodal train 218 as it speeds its freight on the (former) Nickel Plate.

Baby, it's cold outside! A westbound grain train approaches Townwood in the late evening light of the first "official" day of winter. With air temps in the single digits and wind chills in the -2... (more)

Another trainload of empties heads east down the C&O at C Cabin on a hot summer day.