IERR 5255 leads the southbound Fernald Turn across Paddys Run Road in Fernald on former Chesapeake & Ohio rails.

Our three daughters give a wave to the Engineer of CSX manifest freight train Q361-20, getting a wave and a short horn blast in return, as it crosses the Great Miami River Bridge in Hamilton, Ohio... (more)

Before their own power was roadworthy, the Cincinnati East Terminal leased RJ Corman GP38 #3863 for their first couple of months of operations on the old N&W Peavine. Here we see RJCC 3863 crossin... (more)

IORY 4072 leads a rainbow consist on a southbound grain train on the former DT&I mainline at Fayne. This train will continue south a few miles to Washington Court House, where the train will be tu... (more)

Our two youngest daughters could almost pass for twins here as they wave to the crew of the CIND's Honda Turn on board Ohio Central SD40-2 No. 4030 crossing the Great Miami River Bridge at Valley ... (more)

The equipment from the 2018 New River Train deadheaded back to Chicago from Huntington on the morning of October 30, 2018. Operating with an Amtrak crew under the CSX symbol P959-30, the train mad... (more)

July 5, 2020: As the three day Independence Day Weekend winds down, our three daughters greet the crew of westbound CSX Q360 from the overpass at D Street in Hamilton with waves and waving flags.

CIND 2001 kicks up some dust as it rolls southbound on the Indiana & Ohio Railway's Blue Ash Subdivision with the I&O Blue Ash Local in tow. CIND 2001 holds an interesting footnote in history, as ... (more)

NS Peavine Local T51 wheels past the mothballed N&W CPL signals at the West End of Afton Siding with a pair of boxcars picked up from the nearby Huhtamaki plant. With no business further east need... (more)

NS local shifter TS90 rounds the curve off of the I&O Oasis Subdivision and onto NS trackage at CP VALLEY behind freshly repainted B32-8 #546. The trestle in the background carries the now-abandon... (more)

IORY 4085 South rolls through the small community of Cuba, Ohio.

Fresh out of a multi-year mechanical restoration project, now it gets to run on their mainline. Whitewater Valley ex-ARMCO Lima LS1000 No. 709 leads a test train of four coaches and sister WVRR Li... (more)

STEAM ON THE CL&N: Lehigh Valley Coal Co. 0-6-0 #126 leads an LM&M "All Steamed Up" excursion train out of the woods as it approaches Mason, Ohio. This line, today part of the Indiana & ... (more)

Gotta start 'em young...my wife Christina introduces our youngest daughter, 1 year old Naomi, to the sights, sounds, and smells of big time steam railroading, up close and personal, with Nickel Pl... (more)

CCET01 approaches the East End of Sardinia siding on the former N&W Peavine with nine loaded hoppers from Winchester Ag Services in tow. The up and down profile of the Peavine can be seen in the d... (more)