With days until the start up of Conrail this group of E8's is trying to get a roll on 117 cars west from Marion toward the connection in Chicago. Most crews talked to on the west end preferred the... (more)

The NS 405 rolls around the curve, through Center St. and past the rare for this line, the old NW CPL.

An eastbound Columbus District train waits for traffic to clear before heading through Marion, as some dark clouds begin to roll in.

An eastbound grain train sits lit by the last few minutes of daylight, as it waits for its turn to head through Marion.

The Q637 with an old c40-8 heads under the westbound cantilever signal by Silver St, as it passes through Marion.

NS 304 rolls south (railroad east) on the Sandusky District, passing AC Tower and the museum at Marion in the nice, bright morning sunlight. One of only a hand full of LMS-blue painted locomotives... (more)

Hotshot 218 heads south as it gets ready to pound the diamonds at Marion.

Fresh out of the shop, NS 1048 heads south with an empty hopper train.

A empty hopper train with a single ES40DC for power passes the westbound classic NW signals in Marion, as the sun sets.

A grain train heads around a farm, and by a field of ripe soybeans, ready to be harvested.

An eastbound on main 2 knocks down the clear signal, and rounds the bend, passing AC tower in the background.

The sun comes out for a few minutes, just in time for this eastbound ballast train splitting the westbound signals for AC.

The NS 304 rounds the bend, and passes the AC Tower signals, and prepares to pound the diamonds, crossing the CSX Mt. Victory Sub.

A former Conrail caboose with a bunch of X on it for some reason, sits with an assortment of cars, and a former Conrail SD40-2 on the east end of the Marion yard.

An eastbound grain train heads under the cantilever that protects the crossovers, the track to the right is the connection track from the Columbus Sub to the Mount Victory Sub.