A standard cab dash 9 leads NS 861 over the diamond in Marion.

A local heads east with 13 cars that it will deposit on the exchange track for NS to pick up.

The interlocking handles of AC Tower are no longer used by the railroad to operate the diamonds of Marion, but they are still located in AC Tower and are still operational. The tower has been in ... (more)

G852-24 rolls South towards the diamonds at Marion as it passes under the classic C&O signals.

A westbound CSX train on the Indianapolis line heads past the signals that protect the diamonds by Marion Union Station.

NS 850 pulls its coal loads though Marion on the NS Sandusky line, while another railfan takes his shot from the Erie caboose that sits on the Union Station grounds.

A GP38-2 and an Erie caboose sit all alone on the east end of Marion yard.

NS 305 had a head start leaving Columbus, but I managed to beat him to Marion by at an hour. I guess he tried to trick me into thinking he passed through town already..

Q636-16 left Columbus at around the same time I did this afternoon, but I beat it to this spot with a few minutes to spare, as he continues heading West on the CSX Columbus sub.

Newer EMD NS power pulling coil steel loads in rural Ohio just noth of Attica junction with CSX on a beautiful sunny Sunday in Ohio farm country.

CN in Z scale.

The race is on! Two SD40-2s running long hood forward race each other to the diamond on the N&W line in Marion. Both had been stopped a couple hundred feet back, but are now putting on a show fo... (more)

A GE charges north over the diamonds and past AC Tower.

From the look of things here, nothing has received quite as much attention lately as the ballast! Not that maintaining the roadbed isn't essential to good railroading.