Westbound ethanol with one unit wonder 80MAC

69Q rolls slowly along the north controlled siding as it begins it's trip to Bellevue, Ohio

NS train 69Q, an empty unit ethanol train, heads westbound on Conrail's Port Reading Secondary in Bound Brook, NJ. Canon EOS 50D, Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX DG APO HSM Macro

After shedding their cab signal leader in Toledo NS 69Q now heads west at 295 with pure BNSF power on the point.

When 69Q left Cleveland these two units were facing the other way and led by a SD70 - after some re-arranging in Toledo the train is under way again at Vickers ready to continue West.

Conrail Quality scheme SD60I leads NS ethanol train 69Q westbound through CP Center in "the war zone" - all's calm for the moment.

Empty ethanol train 69Q is blasting through the rural northern Ohio countryside as they roll past the grain elevator south of Graytown between Oak Harbor and Milbury, OH.

This isn't the ordinary "Vickers view" of CP 285 by the NS Signal bridge. 69Q is on the move again after waiting for a M7M ahead to clear. A half harvested beanfield behind the house and oddly t... (more)

69Q just changed crews at the pad and is now heading through Toledo "straight 2" - running through town on track 2 rather than 1. This view is only possible through small chain-link off the Byrne... (more)

A colorful 69Q heads west through the farm fields of New Galilee.

The sun came out just in time as 69Q gets moving after a crew change at the pad. They're curving around past the Toledo Amtrak station who's active tracks are out of view to the left.

69Q drifts down to Drawbridge and then up the hill to CP Max where they will cut the leader off and place it in the yard at Rockport.

Ethanol train 69Q heads west under the 192 signals.