An empty ethanol train sails over the Auglaize River behind a single ex-Conrail Dash 8. Just another beautiful spring day in northwest Ohio...
A few leaves from a nearby sycamore tree float gently into Sinnemahoning Creek as the Driftwood Turn approaches CP North Driftwood.
The Maumee & Western creeps westbound through Okolona after switching customers in Napoleon. The hirail truck usually follows the train, and watches it over the worst sections of track...not that... (more)
The small town quiet of Quincy is briefly interrupted by the blaring of an air horn as IN 1601 brings a short train east. Up ahead, the crew will set out the head car at Sun-Gro before continuing... (more)
An ex-Reading GP7 and an ex-PRR GP30 lead the Coldwater job back east towards Hillsdale, seen here crossing Soap Creek just west of highway M-49.
Eastbound IN 1601 and 2230 roll along through the rural Michigan countryside. Up ahead is the junction with the Litchfield Branch, where the crew will stop to pick up some old pulpwood flats for ... (more)
With their morning switching done, the IN crew heads back to Hillsdale, passing the nicely restored station near downtown Coldwater. This station (and the similar looking building behind it) are ... (more)
IN 1601 and IN 2230 head eastward past a rural Michigan farm after spending most of the morning switching customers in Coldwater.
Local L62 highballs west towards Montpelier, OH, in a scene straight out of the 1990s. While several sets of these classic Wabash searchlight signals remain here in Michigan, replacements are beg... (more)
Back to reality! After spending the previous weekend shooting Alcos on the WNYP, it was hard to return to the monotonous parade of NS & CSX widecabs "back home." A mostly sunny day with nothing ... (more)
WNYP 4228 and 430 roll eastward along snow covered rails and past the Erie depot in Salamanca with 13 cars for Olean.
A light snow is falling as the Driftwood Turn crosses Sinnemahoning Creek with three big Alcos and thirteen cars.
POW!!! The Meadville Turn punches through snow piled on a crossing as they head east towards Olean.
Eastbound 13T rolls through the scenic Canisteo River valley enroute to Binghamton.
In the last of the evening light, a westbound grain train rolls along across snow-dusted fields enroute to Fort Wayne. The near grain elevator is Edgerton, just inside the Indiana - Ohio border; ... (more)
