The Christmas lights are on in Deshler as Q506 heads for Toledo as the FRED streaks though town on a cold winter night.
An ex-Conrail 70Mac is on the point of a short freight headed south on the Toledo Sub rolling under the old cantilever at the days last light.
Q516 is Toledo bound, rolling past the lake with a colorful mix of SD40-2's for power, on a beautiful September morning.
Q339 strolls around the wye and begins a southbound journey down the Toledo sub as a fisherman takes a break to watch it roll past.
A CSX westbound arrives at Porter Jct from Grand Rapids and will now continue on to Chicago via Conrail. By the time I made it to Porter again the semaphores were long gone.
Q375 with 4 older EMD's, makes the pass on Q501 that is still making it's way around the wye at Deshler, OH.
Things are getting backed up at East Portal as the distributed power from a BNSF train idles in the siding waiting for their turn through the tunnel.
The DPU's on a westbound empty sit idle in the siding at Pinecliffe as the trains crew has gone 'dead' on the law.
Distributed power is leaning into this westbound coal empty at Pinecliffe, CO.
Two kids take a short break from fishing to watch the DPU's on a northbound coal train rumble through Palmer Lake on an overcast afternoon.
Eastbound coal loads drop down through Coal Creek Canyon approaching Blue Mountain Road crossing.
Storm clouds are gathering high above the mountains as more coal slowly heads downgrade toward Denver.
From high atop tunnel 29 we catch westbound empties grinding up the grade at Pinecliffe, CO.
This view made up for the long hike as we catch a westbound BNSF manifest at tunnel 29 approaching Pinecliffe.
Eastbound coal loads creep around the curve at Crescent and continue down the grade on a beautiful Colorado morning.
