It's a fairly typical scene on a weekday in Downtown Portland. Pedestrians finding a second to cross the busy streets, cars waiting their turn at one of the many stoplights, and a light rail train... (more)

An eastbound Blue Line train pulls into the Yamhill District station before making the turn onto 1st Avenue in Downtown Portland

Hard at Work. With the summit only a couple of miles away, an eastbound intermodal is working as hard as it can to crest the West Slope of the Allegheny Mountains. Soon the toughest part of... (more)

Lend some help? A early morning helper set heads up the East Slope approaching the Gallitzin Tunnels. This set would continue over to Cresson where it would be available to help out an east... (more)

The Virginian Heritage Unit leads a 6-unit cavalry on the head of 376 as it heads north on the Sandusky District, past an open field of soybeans at Troutman Road north of Delaware.

The NS Office Car Special is on its way south to the Kentucky Derby, as it sweeps around the curve at Penry Road, just north of Delaware on the Sandusky District.

A View of the Past into the Present. While it is across the tracks from its original location, AC Tower still stands as a piece of history as a part of the now dying art of tower operations... (more)

A high hood GP38-2 in road service is something you don't normally expect to see in 2015. But I sure as heck saw it. High hood geep #5094 leads an SD70 and Standard Cab Dash 9 north across Norton ... (more)

Norfolk Southern 195 heads north (railroad west) toward Bellevue on the Sandusky District as the sun ducks toward the horizon in the middle of fall 2014.

The power for what would become Q107, which happens to be 2 of CSX's newest GEVOs, sits just outside the Intermodal Terminal east of Marion. A day of patchy clouds has given way to a clear evening... (more)

Northbound NS Intermodal 235 heads up the Sandusky District at Monnett, between Bucyrus and Marion. The sun has just set over the horizon, but lights the underside of the clouds, creating an excel... (more)

NS 194 heads down the Sandusky District past the signal at MP 54 aka "Monnett" and the many dead corn and soybean fields that line the tracks at Crawford-Marion Line Road.

A northbound grain train runs parallel to Gillett Road just before the train rolls through the hamlet of Waldo in some stellar late evening light.

A CSX Intermodal is about to head west from the C&O to the B&O at the Fostoria Diamonds.

C&O Relic at Onion. A visitor from the west leads a rerouted Chicago-Indianapolis manifest down the Columbus Sub in Carey. The train passes under one of the last surviving C&O Cantilever si... (more)