This morning NS local D96 heads back to Lafayette, IN after finishing a night's worth of work switching industries and the NS Logansport, IN yard.

Just after a brief rainfall, steam rises off the road to Creech as a coal train slowly loads in the afternoon sun.

A stout, wooden tie that once supported heavy trains rolling over steel rails is now holding up just a few barbed wires and fencing—and planted into the soil vertically like the tree it once was—s... (more)

Before a full day of chasing trains on CSX's Tallahassee Subdivision I was greeted to this sunrise at Douglas City... Breathtaking.... Absolutely Breathtaking.

"Night Moves"

"Dreadnought"

Peering out the small window of the crossing guard shack just in time to see a JS locomotive whistle through the crossing back into Dongbolizhan Station.

Our guide Jun is also an avid railroad photographer. We were always his priority but he would take a few photos with us as well. He had a great knowledge of the area showing us the best locations ... (more)

Early dawn is very still at Dongbolizhan Station.

Loads of coal head towards the Xuanmeichang Washery.

Standing in silence in this creepy abandoned apartment complex waiting for that shot when a steam train comes into sight. Pictures still hand on the wall along with some other personal artifacts t... (more)

This relic sits in the Jichangzhan scrap yard as its sibling still pounds the rails.

I stood in the dark on this empty street surrounded by vacant homes. As the dawn blues started to creep in a lone rider on a moped zips down the street. The last train of the shift clatters by bac... (more)

Looking out through the broken panes of glass from an abandoned apartment in the wasteland that remains of Nanquan. Few residents still remain in this town just south of Sandaoling.