Racing the sun and the Hours of Service Law, NS Lake Division local L55 scurries down the Scioto River Valley for Portsmouth, OH.

With loads for Duke Power at Terrell, NC, CSX train V385-20 makes its way east over the former C&O between Columbus and Russell, KY.

Sitting bad ordered at National Lime & Stone, NS 9646 watches as NS train 992 takes 10 HLCX SD60's toward Bellevue to be reactivated for service. The former PRR coal dock at Harvey is in the backg... (more)

Who would have thought that 40+ years later, two N&W acquisitions from the 1964 absorption of the NKP and Wabash would end up as stablemates on a former B&O shortline in southern eastern Ohio. For... (more)

The engineer on Q634 greets his counterpart on Q310 as the two trains pass at the West End of Robbins Center Siding.

On time Amtrak train 50, the Cardinal, rolls east on the C&O with the fog having just lifted enough to give its passengers a view of the New River Gorge.

With coal for a Detroit Edison plant in Michigan, NS 864 has topped Kingston Hill as it roll west out of the foothills of southern Ohio.

At the site at what was once the Eastern Kentucky Railway crossing, the Vanceburg Turn returns east to Russell after completing it's work on the former C&O "CD".

C&O built the Northern Subdivision to move coal at speed from Russell, KY to Columbus, OH. Successor CSX is still benefiting from the C&O's goals as coal train T945 rolls coal loads west for inter... (more)

At track speed, the Valentine's Day edition of NS's hotshot Chicago-Greensboro, NC train 218 rolls through the small agricultural town of Ashville. To the dismay of the village, NS abolished the 4... (more)

NS train 380 (Columbus, OH - Dickinson, WV) makes it way past the former NYC/T&OC depot at Pickerington, OH.

Big and little power at Waldo. As the elevator's Plymouth watches on, NS 9185 leads 10 former UP SD60's toward Bellevue. Stacks covered with tarps, the units had been in storage in Buckeye Yard fo... (more)

Just after sunrise, OHCR SD40-2's 4024 and 3305 roll the Newark-Parsons Turn east with interchange traffic from CSX in Columbus. Former Conrail Super 7 4097 will be handling the chores for the Eas... (more)

Cutting through a crisp 10 degree morning, E457 rolls down the former C&O with empties from Ashtabula Harbor, OH for Russell, KY.

Ohio Central 4094 and 4098 return from Joyce Iron & Metal down a remnant of the former CA&C. No less then 5 paint schemes are worn by the OC's 9 Super 7's, with 4094 getting it's colors from the s... (more)