The engineer waves to a child and his parents from the cab of NS "Penn Central" 1073 as it leads 143 down the middle of 9th Street in Goshen.

A pair of ex-Conrail SD80MACs and a couple of BNSF GEs bring an empty coal train through rural Pettisville, Ohio, on a mild winter evening.

Fishermen prepare to set their boats in the water as eastbound Q438 sails across the massive Susquehanna River bridge on a pleasant fall afternoon.

Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited departs historic Harpers Ferry, WV, on a cool fall morning, as seen from the Loudon Heights overlook.

On a late night run to Joliet, the next-to-last outbound Rock Island District train of the evening is just minutes out of LaSalle St. Station as it passes venerable 16th St. Tower. Special thanks... (more)

Nickel Plate 765 steams into New Haven, Indiana, on a short deadhead run to get set up for the next day's trip to Decatur, Illinois.

Nickel Plate 765 is homeward bound on home rails as she highballs across the Ohio countryside, enroute to the Fort Wayne RR Historical Society's shop at New Haven, IN.

Bright evening sunshine breaks through the cloud cover to illuminate the Norfolk Southern heritage unit as it brings 31M west on the Chicago Line.

Nickel Plate 765 storms out of Clyde on its deadhead run from Toledo to Portsmouth.

On a deadhead move from Toledo to Portsmouth, Nickel Plate 765 crosses the Portage River on Norfolk Southern's Toledo District.

Crossing the diamond with the Toledo Terminal at Ironville, Nickel Plate 765 returns to Homestead Yard after a round trip to Maumee with Norfolk Southern's employee appreciation special.

With a rebuilt "Admiral Cab" SD40-2 leading, westbound L74 passes the entrance to the Bluffton quarry in the late evening.

NS 1067 (Reading) and 8104 (LV) bring an empty coal train across the Huron River at South Rockwood, MI, on Norfolk Southern's former Conrail Detroit Line. I imagine that it would have been possib... (more)

Norfolk Southern's Reading heritage unit, together with the Lehigh Valley heritage unit, lead an empty coal train across Otter Creek enroute to Toledo, Bellevue, and points south. The train is on... (more)

Northbound Q134 cruises above the cornfield as it passes the south end of Deshler siding in the early morning. in a little over a mile, the train will swing east onto the Willard Sub. for the las... (more)