These Pennsy position lights have seen plenty of sunrises in their day, but every sunrise brings the ultimate sunset just a little bit closer.
Because of Q389's dilemma the night before, several trains were running on late or alternate schedules on this day. Q135 was one of them, running instead as L135.
The usual set of three GE's pilot Q110 into town led by a former Conrail unit, with marker lights still intact.
E439's final car clears just in time to allow this shot of X395, a train of rotary gons on their way to be stored.
With a single Geep in control, B41 heads west towards Archbold where they will run around their train before working in Pettisville on their return to Toledo.
As the village of Pettisville comes to life for Friday the 13th, eastbound 18M briefly breaks the small-town silence with an SD60 leading the charge.
Eastbound Q276 slices through the bitterly cold pre-dawn air, knocking down a clear signal at Longley on the old C&O.
A quiet morning in the village of Pettisville is broken by the sound of 24N coming into town behind a single Union Pacific EMD.
Two former Soo Line SD60's and a CITX leaser lead westbound Canadian Pacific train 241 under the New York Central signal bridge at CP 367 in Waterloo, IN.
A quartet of matching armour-yellow units lead Q132 north on the Toledo Branch with the usual solid train of Pacer containers.
Eastbound 34T crosses from two to one at CP 360 with a rare SOO SD60M leading the way.
K311's pair of SD40-2's struggle to get their heavy coke train over the crest of Hicksville Hill as they pass under the ancient wooden bridge carrying CR 75 over the Garrett Sub.
A matching pair of C40-8's lead E435 down the Toledo Terminal as they pass through the single crossover at Consaul.
Dusk settles over Defiance while Q368 leaves the town behind in a cloud of exhaust from the two SD40-2's powering the train.
110 roars through into Hamler as it nears the I&O diamond.
