It's OK, Pioneer GP20 3054 is still on the rails and the train behind it will follow right along. This is probably the worst spot on the Napoleon, Defiance and Western and downright terrifying to ... (more)

Slapping branches, moving 20 directions at once, splashing through water and mud, MAW 4 arrives in Defiance as it passes under Clinton Street. Those branches not only block my camera, they block ... (more)

Northbound Coke train K209 had a smoldering car, the trainmaster was originally going to just let it go on it's merry way but finally cooler heads prevailed and the Deshler Fire Department was cal... (more)

Pioneer Rail GP20 3054 rolls slowly past her newly arrived sister, GP16 1603 and leased NS GP38AC 4148 at Defiance, Ohio on Pioneer's new Napoleon, Defiance and Western

Maumee and Western 16 slowly leaves Defiance in her wake at a crawl as she takes her train East towards Napoleon, Ohio. The brush and bramble is not just the camera angle, it is really what the li... (more)

The last Maumee and Western train ever from Napoleon to Defiance waits out Christmas Eve about halfway along the 15 mile line. The MAW will cease to exist soon, the line has been purchased by Pio... (more)

Making it's best lawn mower impersonation MAW 16 pulls cars out of Storage west of the CSX Diamond in Defiance. 3 years later MAW 16 has possibly seen here last days as she has been rode hard and... (more)

Burnt trees and scorched trucks and wheel sets litter the scene of an ethanol train derailment at this location on February, 6 2011 The NS ethanol train caught fire and exploded just west of Ar... (more)

There are rails in that mess somewhere as MAW 16 still in full IC Death Star lettering and paint heads west toward the CSX interchange in Defiance while a farmer works feverishly with his Case Int... (more)

Number 5 backs a car into the Johns Manville siding in Defiance, Ohio. The line to the left leads across the Maumee River and onto Napoleon. Maumee and Western, Defiance, Ohio

24M leaves the scene of one Derailment at Waterloo that happened 3 days ago and passes the site of another, 8 Miles away at Butler that happened about a month ago.

The Sunsets over Ohio City and the Erie Railroad. Van Wert County has recently completed pulling up all that remains of the Erie Railroad Chicago Line. Ohio City was once served by three railr... (more)

A Triple Crown Roadrailer on Norfolk Southern 261 hits the CSX Diamond at Columbus Ave. in Fostoria, Ohio

The conductor prepares to uncouple the train and allow MAW 16 to run around it's train and back to the office as it completes it's Napoleon to Defiance journey.

An eastbound empty steel coil train crawls through the site of the 3-26-10 derailment of a loaded coal train at Waterloo, Indiana