The fall colors are on full display as IBCX 815 and 5115 take an empty grain train south while a thunderstorm rolls over.
IBCX 815, a rebuilt SD18, sits across a county road near Union Mills while the conductor prepares to help switch the grain elevator.
Having just crossed the NS from the small yard in Thomaston, Engineer Austin at the helm of former EJE SDM #815 begins the long slow pull toward Malden with 50 cars in tow.
Corn stalks blowing in the wind, tractors in the middle of the roads, and fields of corn and beans downed overnight. These are sure signs that its harvest season through central and northern India... (more)
IBCX 815 passes the southbound signal guarding the NS interlocking at Hanna with a cut of hoppers for Co Alliance in Union Mills.
IBCX 815 departs Thomaston with a cut of hoppers for Co Alliance in Union Mills.
Chesapeake & Ohio locomotive 815 is actually owned by Indiana Boxcar Corporation. IBCX 815, seen at La Crosse, Indiana, on September 29, 2018, was originally Duluth Missabe & Iron Range SD9 163 (... (more)
CKIN 815 crosses over the NS at Thomaston, Indiana as it prepares to pick up and drop off cars. This is the former diamond of the PM and NKP.
CKIN 815 is moving its gypsum train on the outskirts of Wanatah, Indiana. From here it'll go to Thomaston to interchange with the NS.