Three EMD's shove hard on the rear of a loaded crude oil train fighting upgrade towards a crew change in Bluefield. Even 369.5 miles west of Norfolk, we're still deep in the heart of N&W country.

As the sun lowers toward the horizon, an eastbound empty coke train blasts out of Hicksville behind a pair of CSX AC44's.

All is quiet on this sunny Sunday evening while an assortment of Pioneer engines assigned to the Napoleon, Defiance & Western railroad rest in the former Wabash yard.

Leaning every which way, the westbound MAW freight crawls through the backyards of Napoleon as they approach the busy crossing at the intersection of Glenwood Avenue and West Washington Street.

A momentary break in the clouds allows a splash of evening sunlight to shine on BNSF's swing bridge across the Mississippi. In just a few moments, the BNSF stack train crossing the bridge will be ... (more)

BLE 902 and company knock down the signal as they roll alongside Angling Road, surrounded by the fantastic fall color near Pennside.

With BN green getting harder and harder to find, I couldn't resist heading out to shoot the I&O's Lima-Delta turn on their return trip to Lima on a hazy spring morning. Here, the train is seen rol... (more)

With one of CSX's new "Boxcar Logo" GEVO's leading the way, a lengthy Q394 knocks down the signal at Longley as the train approaches a left hand turn onto the Willard Sub at F-Tower in Fostoria. J... (more)

Led by a former LMS unit, a lengthy 18M is stretched out through the hills south (railroad east) of Waldo on the Columbus District.

Heading back to the yard in Defiance, the ND&W crosses County Road 17 and passes a very ironic sign a few miles east of Okolona. I guess that farmer got the message, eh?

Seeing any kind of daylight traffic through Dunkirk is rare, but after learning of the eastbound GRCL this morning, the chase was on. A stop along the way was Kirk Tower in the small town of Dunki... (more)

A frigid Saturday morning finds the ND&W working east out of Okolona. Notice the severe lean of the train, a sign of the rough track conditions that plague this stretch of shortline railroading.

After pulling their train off the CSX interchange, the 9400 cuts away to head south so they can run around the train and haul it north to Metamora. Engineer and fellow RP contributer Aaron Border ... (more)

A quiet evening on the west side of Defiance finds two of the MAW's engines resting next to the depot, awaiting Monday mornings work.

It's business as usual on Hickory Street in Warsaw as 19K rolls through town. Truly, this is a "two way street."