Byesville Scenic 386 crosses Wills Creek. ( 2006 Photo with a Minolta Maxxum 5D )

An ex-Conrail SD60 pushes hard on the rear of a heavy grain train as it climbs southward out of Cincinnati up the Ohio River Bridge and Erlanger Hill. In the foreground sits Cincinnati Union Termi... (more)

The Maumee job is taking transfer cars up to Homestead yard as they roll across the Maumee with a warrant for the Toledo Belt in hand.

With the last remnants of fall colors clinging to the trees NS 17M shows off the current state of power on lesser NS trains with rented junk up front reminiscent of CSX 10 years ago.

The eastbound Q310 heads over the Big Walnut Creek, as it heads out of Columbus, for its destination of Russell KY.

NS OCS passes Drawbridge heading toward Rockport yard at the airport before proceeding to Toledo.

You never know what you'll find in Ohio! Here a fully lettered SP Tunnel motor sits on the I&O 'ramp' up to the bridge over the NS Chicago mainline in the evening sun.

Rolling north over the Portage river on their way west NS 864 is about to fly over the NS Chicago main and then take the Oak Harbor connection to join it.

The CVSR's number 12 train emerges from the trees and shoots across Furnace Run, a tributary to the Cuyahoga River.

Now just west of the lowest point on the mainline in the Cuyahoga Valley, ahead of Q394 lies an uphill battle from Akron "Hill" Yard to the former site of "East XN Siding."

Almost to the end of the long bridge that runs over the Scioto River, and the low area next to the river, the 233 with UP power trailing heads though Waverly in the late afternoon.

The westbound NS 852 makes its way through Kingston, heading over the State Route 159 overpass, with a former Conrail Dash 8, that really needs a new coat of paint, trailing.

Westbound empty stone hoppers pass high above the Ohio and Erie Canal in Akron, Ohio.

The FIRR Cloggsville turn eases a cut of grain hoppers down the grade and across the Cuyahoga River.

Two CSX GEVO's (5482 and 5490) lead a Wheeling and Lake Erie coal train around the curve just prior to the old B&O bridge to Benwood. The train, which originated at Nelms Mine on the Ohio Central... (more)