With the second cut of grain cars in tow, the Delta South Local crew pulls across the CSX diamond before shoving into the east transfer at Hamler.
Q368 has helpers on the front and rear as it approaches the Keystone Viaduct. A couple of NREX switchers in transit to a new home can be seen behind the power.
A helper set drifts downhill, passing the former site of SA Tower.
The westbound Pennsylvanian passes some gorgeous fall colors at Cassandra.
An eastbound Triple Crown train passes one of the last remaining NKP-era intermediate signals between Miller City and Leipsic.
Morning sun glints off the pair of tunnel motors leading I&O's 400 train as it casts its reflection in the Metamora reservior.
The crew of westbound 15E has (thankfully) dimmed their headlights for a meet with an empty coal train at the east end of Yellow Creek siding. In the minutes before sunrise, the sky takes on a pi... (more)
Eastbound racks, led by an ex-Conrail GE, pass the grain elevator at Shawtown on the former Nickel Plate main.
The small town quiet of McComb is interrupted by the passage of eastbound intermodal train 218 as it speeds its freight on the (former) Nickel Plate.
A southbound grain train kicks up some fallen leaves as it negotiates the short street running in Warsaw.
Triple Crown train 262 crosses the Little Auglaize River and a passes a little fall color near Melrose.
Westbound Roadrailers cross the I&O diamond and pass through Leipsic's "suburb" of West Leipsic in the late evening.
The age-old struggle against gravity has been overcome once again by sheer horsepower. With an SD40-2 helper set, an SD60M, and a C40-9W on the head end and two more SD40-2s shoving behind, 95 ea... (more)
Westbound 13G has an ex-Conrail Dash 8 in the lead as it passes under the PRR signal bridge at Summerhill.
The fall colors are near peak at Horseshoe Curve as yet another intermodal train heads west.
