The Hornell Turn rolls east through a postcard-like scene on the former Erie mainline in western New York.

The soft glow of an early winter sunset illuminates the massive Big Four Viaduct at Sidney as an eastbound glides across behind a couple of modern GEs.

Morning sun glints off the pair of tunnel motors leading I&O's 400 train as it casts its reflection in the Metamora reservior.

Inbound from Joliet, a "scoot" passes the venerable 16th Street Tower on a bitterly cold New Year's Day.

On a special run to Chicago for the National Train Day event, Bennett Levin's restored Pennsy E8s split the New York Central signals just west of Swanton at track speed.

WNYP 4228 and 430 roll eastward along snow covered rails and past the Erie depot in Salamanca with 13 cars for Olean.

There's nothing quite like sitting under a shade tree on a sunny fall day while watching a pair of ALCos switching!

When they call this "the Old Road," they aren't kidding.

Solitude in an SD40-2; as I wait for the conductor to walk the air test.

The day's work done, local train L70 heads towards home in the last moments of a winter sunset.

Trucks loaded with corn line up for unloading as the A&B switches the ethanol plant.

NS 1067 (Reading) and 8104 (LV) bring an empty coal train across the Huron River at South Rockwood, MI, on Norfolk Southern's former Conrail Detroit Line. I imagine that it would have been possib... (more)

Other than the shiny new paint on the lead two motors, it's hard to believe it's almost 2009. Local D752 heads back west towards Willard, evoking images of the B&O era as it passes relics of anot... (more)

The crew of westbound 15E has (thankfully) dimmed their headlights for a meet with an empty coal train at the east end of Yellow Creek siding. In the minutes before sunrise, the sky takes on a pi... (more)

I&O's Lima - Delta Turn crew brings the 400 train south across the chilly waters of the Maumee River on a Sunday morning. The colorful locomotive consist includes FEC 506 and CF&E 3883 in the tra... (more)