When they call this "the Old Road," they aren't kidding.
Inbound from Joliet, a "scoot" passes the venerable 16th Street Tower on a bitterly cold New Year's Day.
A rare treat for the end of the year was NS 19K, seen here passing the 14 signal south of Milford with a Warbonnet and an ex-BN SD60M.
Passing the junction with the IORY at XN, southbound ore loads make their way towards Middletown, OH. The cantilever signal at Leipsic Junction can be seen in the distance.
Solitude in an SD40-2; as I wait for the conductor to walk the air test.
Hot pigs fly acros the CSX diamonds at Leipsic Junction. Note the misspelling on the NS station sign.
A huge 400 train heads south near a location that was once known as Fulton on the DT&I. The train is about 7 miles south of the Ohio-Michigan border on the "Malinta Cut-Off," a portion of the rai... (more)
Northbound rack train Q272 battles through blizzard-like conditions on the approach to XN south of Leipsic. I probably shouldn't have been out driving in this!
Berkshire 1225 races across the snowy fields of Shiawassee County with a trainload of children eager to see Santa.
Shadows envelope the hillsides as SD80's lead empty coal hoppers down the South Fork Secondary.
BRRRR!! Eastbound intermodal train 234 crosses the former DT&I during a brief snow squall.
After meeting a couple of eastbounds, 15E gets back underway as it passes the old interlocking tower at Leipsic Junction.
A short Q507 pounds the NS diamond at Leipsic Junction on the first real day of snow in this part of Ohio.
A single SD40-2 leads a southbound grain train across the Maumee River south of Liberty Center on the former DT&I.
The harvest is over for most fields in this area. Now the process of hauling the grain to market begins.
