With 687 miles to go to its destination of Norfolk, VA, NS train 234 shoves back into the Rickenbacker intermodal facility after leaving one through car on main #2. Normally the intermodal facilit... (more)
On a warm March day, an empty coal drag rolls eastbound and past some partially snow covered fields in southern Ohio. To the rear of the train some old C&O signals can be seen.
NKP 765 makes a stop at Ashville for maintenance.
The crew is back aboard NKP 765 after providing her with plenty of water and some TLC. Ashville was the only service stop during her ferry move from Toledo to Portsmouth Ohio. Many thanks to Norfo... (more)
A pair of dash 9's running elephant style pull the NS 218 east on the Columbus District.
Doing every bit of the 60mph track speed, the NS 218 zips through Ashville. The mud covered siding for the grain elevator that ends in the mud puddle is still in service.
A GP38-2 and a GP38-3 head east from Watkins Yard on the way to Portsmouth, with a single boxcar, most likely they have the boxcar so they can run at trackspeed, as if they were just running with ... (more)
As the sun gets low in the western sky, a warm hue is cast on the scene, CSX runs yet another empty coal train on the busy Northern Sub.
Some coal dust begins to blow off the eastbound export coal train, NS 578, as it heads by in the late evening light.
NS 863 is eastbound is moving at track speed through the little community of Ashville. The Truss bridge crosses Walnut Creek.
With all EMD power, including a rent-a-wreck in the middle, the NS 194 slowly heads down the Columbus district due to signal problems, and prepares to take a restricting signal on the other side o... (more)
The NS 308 heads out of the woods and back into the open, as the trees begin to start showing some fall colors, on a bright and sunny afternoon.
The 233 only a few miles away from Rickebacker now, passes by the intermediate signal at 682, as the sun begins to set.
The 17M with a dirty SD70M leading rolls by the MP 682 signals, just south of Ashville, just before sunset.
CSXT 77 leads an eastbound train over the SR 752 bridge in Ashville.