Sometimes you find yourself in the right place at the right time: here a westbound mixed freight leans into the curve at DeGraff as a rainbow drops for no more than 3 minutes.

Westbound coal loads head north in some classic late evening south central Ohio golden sunlight.

The sun has just broken the horizon as Q350 kicks up the snow in Botkins, thundering north past the classic B&O CPLs.

Fostoria based local H793-20 heads south (RR east) LHF with a short cut of cars as they pass a parked SD40-3 in Carey.

An empty westbound ethanol train with a rare leader waits for a new crew on the west side of North Baltimore while a remote job pulls forward for some head room as it switches the intermodal facil... (more)

A westbound empty ethanol train passes by F tower and crosses over the CSX Columbus Subdivision as it is about to meet an eastbound intermodal train just out of frame.

The 26E crosses over Baumhart Road in Lorain, Ohio. Despite the condition of this bridge, it is one of my favorite local spots to shoot.

One of only a few remaining KCS units still wearing its "grey ghost" paint scheme leads empty ethanol train K625 westbound through the interlocking in Berea, Ohio on a sunny February mor... (more)

A pair of Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2's have just crossed the Blanchard River and are rolling over Musson Road outside Forest, Ohio. WLE train 430 is running east over the CF&E from Lima towards h... (more)

CSX train Id: T-400 Leads a loaded coal train train through downtown Akron on a cold January afternoon

In the final hours of light CSX train Id: I-137 leads Intermodal train through downtown Akron on a cold January evening.

The sun has finally broken through the clouds as the Ohio Central's Newark to Columbus turn NKPA climbs over the hogback at Gale Road in Outville, Ohio. In the lead of today's train is an Ohio Cen... (more)

BIP 278 emerges from a forest of green in Alden, Ohio, heading for Relief.

The weather made for interesting photos this past Sunday in Vermilion. My first picture was blizzard like, the third train was basking in the sun. In between was this 20E, heading East through tow... (more)

In the middle of a snow squall, NS intermodal train 206 passes through the quiet zone of Vermilion, Ohio.