This isn't the ordinary "Vickers view" of CP 285 by the NS Signal bridge. 69Q is on the move again after waiting for a M7M ahead to clear. A half harvested beanfield behind the house and oddly t... (more)

Eastbound M6N flies under the signal bridge at CP 285 just after sunrise.

Running several hours late, eastbound Norfolk Southern 206, passes under the signal bridge, at CP 285, and blows for Wales Rd., after changing crews in downtown Toledo, behind NS 7541 & 7550.

Coal train U90901, is stopped at Vickers waiting for a signal from the NS, as the sun reflects it in a almost always dry field, with CSXT 342 & 371, and a entire train of the new gray rotary hoppe... (more)

Norfolk Southern eastbound train 178, with NS 9672, is crossing Whales, Rd., in Northwood, Oh. as it heads for Bellevue, Oh. racing from the rising sun, and the nice day ahead.

The day after 14Q derailed at Martin, Oh., NS 2775 leads 2741 westbound, after it was the first westbound van train past the accident. It is passing the rear of the derailed 14Q sitting in the sid... (more)

Norfolk Southen SD70M=2, NS 2769, leads NS 9475, eastbound at CP 285, passing under the signal bridge, at Droullard Rd. in Northwood, Oh., after compleating a crew change in downtown Toledo.

Norfolk Southern 9015, leads a stable mate, eastbound under the westbound signals at CP 285, Vickers, in Northwood, Oh., as they head for Celveland.

A clean looking ex-CR SD40-2, NS 3401, leads a work train off the siding at CP 285 on the Chicago Line, heading into downtown Toledo, and a place to unload and park the MOW equipment.

CSX train K38911 with the now famous pair of ex-DRGW tunnel motors, WE 5413 & 5391 are stoped at Vickers waiting for the NS to give them a signal to procede north for Detroit, Mi., with there load... (more)

BNSF 9803 & BN 9543 are doing what there builder intended, moving coal, altough empty now, on NS train 417 heading back for the coal fields to the west, as they pass by CP 285 in Toledo, Oh, and a... (more)

As Conrail's assets were divided between NS and CSX, did you find that labeling your photographs proved somewhat confusing for a while? -- this sure LOOKS like a Conrail consist. But the process ... (more)

This freshly painted UP unit -- why is it headed east on Conrail? -- provides the sole power to lift 97 empty coil-steel gons and flats out of the Maumee river valley and toward Lorain and Clevela... (more)

As long as we could watch heavy manifests pulled by on multiple-track mains, we in the Midwest and Northeast might continue to delude ourselves that we weren't REALLY the "rust belt" yet!