The Amtrak "Southwest Chief" hastily races beneath the intermediate signals at MP241 on the Marceline Sub., just west of Fort Madison by a couple miles.

An old Santa Fe veteran leads a few other smaller EMD's on a short local into Galesburg, Illinois.

287 pulls into the yard at Avon Lake where it'll drop all of it's cars and continue on to Bellevue as light units.

After dropping their entire train in the yard at Avon Lake, the power from autorack train 287 continues on to Bellevue running light. The track it is on in this picture is the old connection from ... (more)

The Penn Central and Illinois Terminal heritage units lead oil train 64R eastbound through the plant at CP Max.

65R rolls through the small community of Haysville, PA, ducking beneath the intermediate signal bridge at PC10 on the Fort Wayne Line. The MGA and DLW heritage units really go good together.

Stack train 206 and a Cleveland RTA race east out of downtown.

The New York Central heritage unit leads loaded coal train 576 westbound through the interlocking at CP Wandle in downtown Canton. It's kind of interesting seeing the NYC unit on ex PRR trackage.

Shay number 4 leads a photo freight during one of the many runby sessions during Cass Railfan Weekend 2013. In the background, you can catch a glimpse of the line of photographers set up along a c... (more)

Stack train 201 climbs the mountain in Shawsville behind a trio of GE products.

Loaded coal train 850 pauses at Flat Rock to await permission into Bellevue. After shooting the Southern this day, it completed my quest to catch all 20 NS heritage units leading out in the wild. ... (more)

A nice pair of spartan cab locomotives, one GE and one EMD, lead autorack train 272 past one of the many N&W CPL's on this line. Just behind me, the train will duck into Roderfield tunnel.

Stack train 21Q climbs the hill out of the Cuyahoga River valley in downtown Cleveland. It is seen here at Battery Park, just short of the 184 signals. It's a shame that all of the poles and wires... (more)

Loaded coal train 820 streaks through the N&W CPL bracket masts in Ingleside with a huge train in tow.

A pair of pusher units head west through Maybeury, en route to their next assignments.