A pair of SD40E's that are typically assigned to helper service on the famed 'West Slope' have found their way to the flatland's of Ohio on a chilly afternoon in Marion, seen passing one of the tw... (more)

Today's Q136 offers a flashback to the "good old days" where seeing a four-axle EMD on the point of a hotshot trailer train was all too common.

Led by a classic pair of GP38-2's, J716 throttles up with a long and heavy train for SDI in St. Joe after meeting Q500 at Auburn Junction.

The salad shooter rolls through rural Ohio farmland.

A sunny fall morning finds Q380 rolling by the old station in Deshler, right across the tracks from Crossroads Park.

A lengthy L75 rolls into Continental after meeting a coal train west of town.

Westbound stack train L163 rolls around the curve west of Defiance on the Garrett Sub.

Just a few minutes after the heavy rain ceased, westbound Q389 rolls by the Armbruster farm just a couple miles west of the town of Holgate.

An eastbound powered by a rent-a-wreck gets back on the move at CP 342, still guarded by classic New York Central signals.

Southbound 312 takes the Speicherville siding at CP 53 for a meet with northbound 18K on a warm fall morning.

Hotshot intermodal train 20E heads east under the New York Central signal bridge at CP 285.

Our chase of 178 with a rare set of SD80MAC's began at Vickers Junction, as the pair passes under the New York Central style signal bridge at CP 285.

SD80MAC's aren't all too common in the flat lands of Ohio anymore, so fellow RP contributor Aaron Border and I jumped on the chase. Here the pair is seen passing a patriotic barn north of Fremont.

A once proud member of the New York Central passenger fleet, this E8 has now been wasting away on a side track in Bellevue for 15 years.

On the return portion of their rare trip to Ohio and Michigan, this pair of NS SD80MAC's led mixed bag 178 down the Toledo District towards Bellevue. Once there, they will be sent back to the coal... (more)