A two-GP GTW consist, led by a battered blue GP38-2, waits for clearance just north of the DiAnn exchange.

After pulling their train off the CSX interchange, the 9400 cuts away to head south so they can run around the train and haul it north to Metamora. Engineer and fellow RP contributer Aaron Border ... (more)

CEFX 9400 heads south towards Hamler as light power to pick up a grain train for loading in Metamora.

Engineer (and fellow RP contributor) Aaron Border gives a friendly wave from the cab as he and his crew work on pulling a cut of empties out of the CSX interchange in Hamler.

You never know what you'll find in Ohio! Here a fully lettered SP Tunnel motor sits on the I&O 'ramp' up to the bridge over the NS Chicago mainline in the evening sun.

The lead unit of GUNHA slowly passes by an old farmhouse and crosses a county road south of Hamler. Catching trains in daylight on this line can be tricky.

Shortly after sunrise, the conductor on I&O's Delta Switcher boards the engine to start another day of serving the needs of area customers.

Dynamic brakes whining, I&O's Lima-Springfield Turn cruises downhill past the grain elevator at Thackery.

After running up to CN Flat Rock yard in Michigan the Delta Switcher is on the final leg of their return trip to Delta as they roll through NW Ohio farm country.

On the bitterly cold second day of 2010, I&O's "400" train eases out of Ford Park yard limits and across Sugar St. diamond, the crossing and connection with sister RailAmerica road CF&E.

With a typical mish-mash of units in four different paint schemes, I&O's "400" train approaches the US 33 overpass at St. Johns. Trailing the CIND 5000 is IORY SD40T-2 #4070 in the older RailTex r... (more)

I&O's "400" train kicks up the snow as it crosses the massive Quincy High Bridge with RailAmerica painted CIND 5000 leading.

In a rare daylight appearance, I&O's 400 train cruises across the River Raisin south of Maybee. I had been waiting for the opportunity to get a shot here ever since seeing Railroad: Indiana & Ohio Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD40T-2
Location: Raisinville Township, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: IORY 4070
Train ID: A40061
Photo Date: December 20, 2009

FEC 505 and CBNS 5004 lead a 35 car Lima - Delta Turn south across the farm fields of northwestern Ohio on a crisp winter morning. The Florida East Coast unit is actually on lease to the Chicago ... (more)

Under a spectacular cloudy sunrise, I&O's 400 train waits for a new crew south of Hamler.