Just passing the hot box detector MP 138.4 at Ripley, a 30 MPH coal drag heads eastbound toward Avilla, Indiana as it catches the evening glint.
A westbound container train approaching Albion at 55 mph stirs up the fresh fallen snow from an "Alberta Clipper" snow system.
The rear of the Q156-07 is completely obliterated from the snow as it heads eastbound out of Albion, IN at close to track speed.
Westbound Q113-06 heads through the S-curve west of Albion, IN during an "Alberta Clipper" snow system.
In the late evening light, a westbound general freight comes out of the curve a few miles east of Albion, IN.
Strong back lighting from the sun enhances the flying dust and diesel exhaust, as a 58 mph eastbound container train comes out of the curve between Albion and Avilla, IN.
With the tail end of the CSX Q146-20 about to exit the scene, an empty coal train heads west back to the Powder River Basin coal fields of Wyoming.
Westbound Q381 sweeps around the S-curve west of Albion, IN with three new deliveries for BNSF in tow.
Cornfields abound as a short CSX train heads westbound towards Albion, Indiana and onward to Chicago.
A UP consist leads a westbound manifest towards Albion, Indiana and onward to Chicago.
Eastbound crossing the Elkhart River on a beautiful fall morning.
Q110-22 cruises thru the Indiana corn fields enroute to New Jersey
CSX 4556 leads a loaded coal drag westbound on the ex B&O just east of Albion, IN.
Westbound Q500 slips around the curve in the late afternoon sun with a short train in tow.
CSX local J716 runs eastbound behind a couple of geeps crossing the Elkhart river west of Albion, IN.
