On their return trip to Fort Wayne, L96 eases to a stop outside of Grabill to wait for a meet with an eastbound mixed freight. A few horses size up the much larger and more powerful 3,000 horsepow... (more)

A pair of EMD vets in matching YN3 paint pilot a long Q200 out of Hamler on another beautiful summer morning along the Garrett Sub.

A pair of GP60's kick up some snow as they lead an empty steel train past the grain elevator in Stryker.

After meeting L163, eastbound Q380 throttles up as they pass through the control point at East Defiance in white-out conditions.

Southbound 19K roars uphill through a sea of corn and soybeans as the train climbs away from North Manchester. It's scenes like this that keep me coming back to the Marion Branch.

Exsersizing trackage rights over CSX between Leipsic and Lima, a southbound extra I&O LNL splits the B&O CPL's at MP 153.5 behind one of the borrowed Ohio Central SD40-2's and the I&O's former Sou... (more)

A fauxbonnet and another BNSF GE team up to lead a junk freight through the plant at Edelstein. The train is beginning the short but steep climb over Edelstein Hill, and will drop into Chillicothe... (more)

Chase complete: After chasing this from Defiance to Hoytville, we finally got ahead with enough time to set up on the roof of our van.

Detouring via the Toledo Sub to avoid MOW work around Fostoria, Q200 eases onto the main at North Deshler behind CSXT 8400, which was built as Western Maryland 7449 in 1969.

The calendar says it's a little past fall peak in the valley, but the trees say otherwise. Here, southbound iron ore loads roar through Oneida with a Bessemer cantilever signal and ancient pole li... (more)

Tied down on a cold winter night, NS 4154 and five boxcars rest below the "skyline" of Jewell, a small farming community in northwest Ohio. At the time, the ND&W had two NS GP38AC's on lease until... (more)

The engineer of L76 prepares to kick a car back into the yard while traffic from I-75 rushes overhead. In just a few minutes, L76's counterpart from Lima will arrive to exchange cars and some smal... (more)

With a pair of foreign forties in charge, K443 eases across the NS diamond at Leipsic Junction as they make their way through the 10 mph siding for a meet with northbound K185. The lean of the tra... (more)

After meeting a northbound, a loaded grain train leaves the west siding at South Deshler behind a matched pair of BNSF Dash-9's in the rather uncommon H1 scheme. The train in the east siding is an... (more)

A southbound grain train rolls through the interlocking at Ironville Tower led by a faded YN2 C40-8. Once upon a time, this was a busy junction between the N&W and C&O, as each railroad used the T... (more)