NS BO22 catches their own reflection in a snowmelt puddle at the west end of Homestead yard.

BO45 is a Toledo local job bringing 90 some cars from the Mega yard to Homestead yard as they head up the Toledo Belt with a classic pair of high hood SD40-2's hard at work.

Z247 is bringing CN interchange down to CSX Stanley yard as they roll across the diamonds at Vickers with a solo CN unit with a distinctive 4 piece windshield.

The Lakeshore limited is nearing the end of their Toledo station stop and will shortly depart to continue their race westward away from the rising sun. Though not visible, this day's train has Am... (more)

16N has a big train today and will need to add another unit to make it to Conway but they've departed Toledo with NS 7548 & UP 3955 dragging the train over the river and curving upgrade.

20R has just left the pad with a new crew and is rolling through the Maumee river bridge on their way out of town.

NS 184 rolls through a slow order at 281 and is crossing over from 1 to 2.

Q396 developed problems with the trailing GE before they even left Stanley so a SD40-2 was added to the consist to get the train going. They rolled out the north end of Stanley and came around th... (more)

All weather intermodal with a frozen grip.

With an ex-LMS IC Dash 8 leading Z247 brings CN interchange down the Toledo terminal to CSX Stanley yard as they roll across the diamonds at Vickers.

Though it had a BO03 crew on board (Homestead yard based local crew) I suspect this is a NS 616 which had been tied down in the Mega and is now being moved up to Homestead by the local crew. This... (more)

A Herzog Multi Purpose Machine (MPM) is about to head out onto the Chicago Mainline from Sumner Street yard. What is that thing? Try Railroad: Herzog Railway Services
Locomotive: Herzog MPM
Location: Toledo, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: HZGX 184
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: February 17, 2010

Typically a nocturnal train, Q218 sits at Oregon Road near the end of their run waiting to get into Stanley yard while the mid-winter snow falls.

On this day the Capitol Limited was 2:23 down arriving at Toledo at 7:36 AM in the morning. After a 9 minute station stop they're heading west with no less than four units up front as they approac... (more)

Q506 slowly comes across the north end of Stanley yard as they work over to the runner to head down through the yard.