Westbound local D763 roars past the CPL signals at Sullivan with 49 cars for Willard on a sunny Monday afternoon.

Other than the shiny new paint on the lead two motors, it's hard to believe it's almost 2009. Local D752 heads back west towards Willard, evoking images of the B&O era as it passes relics of anot... (more)

On a frosty Sunday morning, empty hoppers roll east behind a single GE as they split the intermediate signals between Miller City and Leipsic. Besides the snow and ice, the switch broom on the fr... (more)

Baby, it's cold outside! A westbound grain train approaches Townwood in the late evening light of the first "official" day of winter. With air temps in the single digits and wind chills in the -2... (more)

Highballing through a winter wonderland, eastbound 218 crosses the Little Auglaize River on a frigid Sunday morning.

Ice covers just about everything as an empty coal train heads west out of Deshler in the late evening.

Local D743 continues north after working the IAMS plant north of Leipsic on an icy December afternoon. A few miles ahead at Deshler, the crew will run around their train and head back to Lima.

Just minutes before sunset, a late running J726 roars southbound past the endangered semaphores at south Romney on a bitterly cold December evening. Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD SD40-2
Location: Romney, Indiana, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 8029
Train ID: CSX J726
Photo Date: December 05, 2008

A nice late afternoon treat in the form of southbound ore train K185 is seen splitting the CPL's between Leipsic and Ottawa. Normally assigned a pair of GE AC units, today's train has SD70MAC 454... (more)

Twelve thousand GE horses power a re-routed Q647 south past the south end of Ottawa siding on "Black Friday." This Chicago to Waycross train normally operates via the ex-C&EI, but today ran east ... (more)

In the quickly - fading light of a late fall sunset, eastbound Q388 passes a small farm as it crosses Route 65 on the west side of Deshler. Somehow, I still don't get a very good cell phone signa... (more)

Not too many more sunsets left for the semaphore signals on the Monon....

Monday's edition of the Avon-Lafayette turn heads back south past the South Raub defect detector and single semaphore. This is as far north as the blades go on the former Monon.

As the snow continues to fall, 19K makes the "hard right turn" off of the Chicago Line and onto the Marion Branch. For two blocks the line does some quasi-street running, splitting the northboun... (more)

"Lake - effect" snow gets blown around by the passage of 19K as it negotiates the S-curve south of Goshen at track speed.