NS 4000 gallops through CP 307 in Swanton during a moderate snowfall on New Years Eve a few years ago with train 20E. This was the location where, about six months prior to this photo, a westbound... (more)

A westbound manifest races over the crossover at Swanton, Ohio on NS's Chicago line on a busy night in the summer of 2017. At the time of the photo, the CP was still protected by classic NYC signa... (more)

An eastbound races across the cornfields of northern Ohio, taking a clear signal at the CD 309 as the sunrise progresses early on a summer morning.

A NS eastbound heads through a field through rural Fulton County, Ohio.

A westbound intermodal passes the now decommissioned NYC bracket mast located just west of Swanton, Ohio. Its twin had already been knocked down a week prior. These were the last bracket masts in ... (more)

A westbound NS manifest passes the decommissioned NYC trilight bracket mast signal just west of Swanton. It's twin can be seen laying on the ground on the other side of the ROW. It had already bee... (more)

Dating back to the Conrail days, the unique dwarf signal at Swanton is seen lit late on an August night less than a month before it was taken out of service.

The first light of day appears on the eastern horizon as the Amtrak Lakeshore flies past the NYC bracket intermediates at Swanton. August 21, 2017 was eclipse day across America, but it was also s... (more)

One of many eastbound freight trains on Norfolk Southern's busy Chicago line over the course of the night splits the now gone 309 intermediates from the days of the NYC.

NS train #35N splits the NYC bracket signals at CP-309 in Swanton, OH with NS 9772 leading. These are the only NYC brackets without replacements by them.

NS 9245 dodges the clouds as it leads hotshot intermodal train 20E east past the old NYC signals and the replacement cantilever at Swanton.

2 trains sit side-by-side waiting patiently for new crews just east of Swanton, Ohio on the NS Chicago Line. The train with the CP unit is CP 244, destined for the Windsor/Detroit border and onto ... (more)

On a warmer than usual February morning, an empty NS coal train snakes its way east through the crossovers in order to thread the needle between two other trains. This was the first train of the d... (more)