A view from the cab as we pass the tower at Carleton. Click on the train symbol to see a ground level shot.

Diann Tower stands silent as 385 heads south onto the Ann Arbor connection towards Toledo at dawn.

Between North Manchester and Silver Lake, the rails of the Marion Branch turn to a northwest-southeast alignment, allowing nose-lit shots of afternoon northbounds year-round. Here, 144 passes the... (more)

A foggy sunrise greets Q339 as it clears the southeast wye at Deshler and accelerates towards Lima and points south.

A northbound Delta-Lima turn passes Hoy Cemetary in the late evening.

Seen from parallel Old SR 15, 18K starts to climb the small hump between CP 21 and CP 19.

The rails glow with the last minutes of sunset as a short eastbound crosses into Ohio on the former Nickel Plate.

An empty grain train for Metamora passes through a stereotypical midwestern scene. The humidity of a typical Ohio summer morning is also making itself known, even at this early hour.

The classic lines of an EMD spartan cab in a 1/50 pan shot near the IN/OH state line.

Heritage I power leads RoadRailer 252 east past the interlocking at Raisen Center northeast of Adrian on the former Wabash.

On a hot summer afternoon, "bumblebee" 4050 leads southbound racks into the big curve at MP 101.

Running on trackage rights on CSX, a southbound I&O train highballs through Columbus Grove. The flags tell the story today; not much of a breeze, and not much relief from the summer heat.

The Delta-Lima turn crew has a rack train rolling right along at track speed again after being held up by the NS at Leipsic, passing the southbound distant signal at MP 104.7.

After getting talked by the signal at Hamler, a Delta-Lima turn proceeds north past the distant signal at MP 95.7 on the way back to Delta. This 73 car rack train will be delivered to CN at Flat ... (more)

With the headlights reflecting brightly on the rails, 4072 and the Flat Rock Turn's train await departure on the Delta "hill."