Westbound stacks cruise through the S-curve at West Chillicothe and begin to make a run at Edelstein Hill.

Three ES44's notch it up as they lead a westbound stack train around Houlihan's curve and up Edelstein Hill.

Just a few minutes before sunset, 4 ES44's charge west into the setting sun and under the classic Santa Fe signal bridges.

A BNSF manifest works east through the dip near Edelstein, IL at sunset.

A pair of CSX SD40-2's work an empty coal train westbound through Waterloo, IN on the busy Chicago Line.

Horizon level...Everything else, not so much. A loaded rail train works out of the yard preparing to depart railroad west.

Eastbound 218 arrives in Portsmouth splitting the N&W style position lights.

One of the many AC4400's lead an empty coal train under the C&O signal bridges near Edgington, KY on the Northern Sub.

An old GP30 converted to a slug leads a local through the interlocking at NJ Cabin and under a 4 track C&O signal bridge.

Late in the evening the big Berkshire crosses the Wabash river after an all day trip from Peoria. The 765 and her crew are preparing to stop for the night at the 18th St yard in Logansport.

With a big grin, a little boy and his mother watch the NS business train roll through the small rural town of Inwood, IN on the old PRR main.

The NS business train cruises through Hamlet, IN past the Starke County Co-op and the ex-Wisconsin Southern GP7.

Just west of Albion, CSX Q110 rolls at 25mph eastbound on track 1 around men and equipment replacing the rails on track 2.

Westbound grain traverses the 1550 foot long engineering marvel that is the Limeville-Sciotoville Bridge.

Grain loads pass under the vintage signal bridge at Gray's Branch, KY on CSX's Northern Sub. This area still looks like pure C&O.