A eastbound grain train heading east on the wesbound main passes by the Piketon signal. Track work was going on just east of this location on the eastbound main, which made it real slow go for any... (more)

CSXT 572 hustles empty coal hoppers eastward at the east end of Robbins center siding.

CSXT 4006 accelerates it's loaded grain train past Robbins center siding in rural Pike County.

Norfolk Southern's classy set of F units and passenger cars thunder through southern Ohio on their way to Roanoke.

The Wabash heritage unit leans into a turn on NS' hottest train on a bitterly cold day.

A loaded CSX coal train eases east on a bright, sunny summer day in southern Ohio.

My son Wesley, who is three, and the biggest, little railfan, looks on as a CSXT grain train rounds the bend near Greggs Hill. CSXT's "Northern Sub," and Norfolk Southern's, "Colum... (more)

The Norfolk and Western heritage unit traversed home rails this afternoon on the N&W Columbus District between Columbus and Portsmouth, Ohio. I was able to catch them near Piketon at the old US Ro... (more)

The sun shines down on the N&W heritage unit as it travels on home rails near Piketon, Ohio on the former N&W Columbus Line.

Crude oil returns to West Virginia. K122-26, with all BNSF power, heads south towards West Virginia, and what remains of the explosion a similar train left.

NS #8114, the "Original Norfolk Southern" accelerates its train (218) after crossing the Scioto River near Piketon, Ohio on a beautiful August evening. 218 and its counterpart 217 are th... (more)

As six of the "Streamliners at Spencer" locomotives make their trip back home, we are provided a rare sight. Two sequentially numbered, ex-N&W EMD SD40-2's #6106 and #6105 run over home rails once... (more)

NS Lackawanna Heritage units leads train 218 south to Charlotte, NC

The NS 234 heads over the SR 32/SR 124 overpass, and by the signs next to the US 23 exit ramp.

A new ES44AC provides the sole power on the short coal drag NS 888, while RP contributor Michael Biehn works on getting his s... (more)