On a perfect last day of August, 309 heads over the Marina in Rocky River with some rare foreign power on the former Nickle Plate in the form of a BNSF ACE and SD70MAC.
NS 309 traverses the Flats Viaduct in the last of the evening light. The KCS ACe on the point is a rare and welcome visitor to this line, which rarely sees foreign power.
A Southern Belle 70ACE leads NS 309 over the ex-NKP flats viaduct in downtown Cleveland in the last light of the day. The signals are for the drawbridge, which is just to the right and out of sigh... (more)
A rare westbound on the old Nickel Plate, 309 crosses Rocky River on a comfortable summer evening.
A westbound general mechandise clears the small southwest Cleveland suburb of Olmsted Falls with two deliveries for Union Pacific fresh out of Erie. If anyone is interested, the road numbers on th... (more)
The daily Buffalo, NY to Bellevue, OH general merchandise with the power "elephant style" crosses The Cleveland Flats on a very comfortable June evening with the stone barge Cleveland Rocks docked... (more)
The daily Buffalo, NY. to Bellevue, OH. general merchandise crosses the Cleveland Flats on the old Nickel Plate line, as noted by the faded NKP herald on the side of the bridge.
NS 309 rolls over the ex-NKP Flats Viaduct. A little later and the shadows from the massive Innerbelt Bridge would have been too tall.
A somewhat early 309 comes down to the Drawbridge, with a nice old GP59 on the point.
With a rare appearance in daylight hours west of Cleveland, NS 309 crosses the Vermilion River on the old Nickel Plate.
309 kicks up the snow as they blast through Rock Glen with the control point box and the old Erie milepost in the background.
As the shadows climb up the Rocky River Valley, NS 309 rolls across the trestle in the last of the evening light.
309 heads west over the Twentymile Creek Trestle in North East, PA, right of the State Line of New York and PA.
NS 309 going west on the Nickel Plate by the Avon Ford Plant switching job. Luckily news reports say this Ford Plant has been given a "stay of execution".
NS 309 is seen just prior to crossing the drawbridge with UP 7923, a new delivery picked up at GE in Erie PA.
