CSX M635 approaches the diamonds that cross the CSX Mt. Victory Subdivision in Marion, Ohio.

NS 778 with NS 8114 leading passes under the old PRR coaling tower in near whiteout conditions.

NS 19W passes the CP at Harvey on the NS Sandusky District with a bad order hopper car just behind the power.

An eastbound intermodal does every bit of track speed through the classic scenery still remaining at CP-105.

Running on CSX’s former C&O main this EB grain train rounds a sweeping curve as Summerail participants look on admiringly. I sometimes pays to hike a little.

An empty coal train heads south on the Sandusky District with a pair of BNSF units in charge, including the ex-Burlington Northern SD70MAC on the lead.

CR 6469 rattles across the NS diamonds in Marion, OH with an eastbound trailvan. The train is passing AC Tower that was active until 1994 and has since been moved across the right of way. It was q... (more)

Summerail participants strain to get a look as this southbound freight rattles across the former NYC main by the restored tower.

The first of two NS Southbound manifests to pass under the coal tower at Harvey.

Mixed freight crosses the diamond at Marion.

After a week of winter storms, the sun finally breaks through and shines on a short manifest battling its way through the -5 degree frosty morning at CP 95.

A bunch of railfans give the engineer of NS 234 a friendly wave as it passes AC Tower and Marion Union Station on a sunny November afternoon

NS Manifest 18A with foreign power in the lead rolls past one of the many local grain silos on the Sandusky District as it heads towards Marion on a late March afternoon.

A CSX auto rack train pounds the diamonds in Marion just after a Southbound NS train cleared.

A standard cab leader rattles the diamonds in Marion on an early spring evening. A few years back 117 was a reliable late afternoon/early evening mixed freight that often had good leaders.