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An empty Cargill grain train heads thru the streets of La Grange northbound towards Cincinnati, OH. This train is running on the LCL Sub which runs from Louisville, KY to Cincinnati, OH, a total o... (more)

This load slab train begins to accelerate as they past HM Junction east of New Miami. This train is running over to AK's steel plant near Middletown, OH via the Middletown Sub. The train is loaded... (more)

J770 is heading south past the blades at south Romney. This local will head south at Crawfordsville and do local work to Roachdale. At Roachdale the 770 will setout their remaining cars and pickup... (more)

J770 is done with their inbound work at Roachdale and now is heading back north with J771's power and train. They are about 10 miles south of Crawfordsville with 49 cars of cement out of New Castl... (more)

Northbound auto rack train is climbing the hill to the old location of Eagle Tunnel #3. In January 5, 2005 a southbound train derailed in the tunnel due to a tunnel collapse. The tunnel was built ... (more)

An ex-Conrail Sd40 leads this local north pass one of the semaphores on the Lafayette Sub. This local ran into Lafayette and then flipped back south about 2 hours later. The ex-Monon was quite bus... (more)

8 units rumble south on the ex-Monon. The train is passing the semaphore at MP 130, which is where the detector is at also. This train just left Lafayette a few miles ago and is heading south towa... (more)

Southbound local heads thru the well known semaphores at the south end of Romney. The train has an approach due to Q642 is sitting at Linden waiting for J726 to head into the siding to clear up. T... (more)

With the sunrise around 6:54 am, the Q278 creeps thru La Grange at 7:11 am with very low light. The train is about to pass over main street at La Grange. The train has a restricting at the south e... (more)

With many railfans around the Cincinnati area for Summerail, many were chasing trains on the LCL Sub between Louisville and Cincinnati the day before. Here a northbound creeps thru La Grande as ma... (more)

A couple CSX C40's head north pass the city hall at Anderson, MO. It is hard to get trains on the KCS, so I was extremely happy to see CSX power. Not sure if that is real common for CSX power on t... (more)

A pair of AC's leads 95 empty coal hoppers over the abandoned SAL ROW just before crossing the Roanoke River. The old Seaboard depot is now a library.

Fresh from the paint shop, Huntington Locomotive Shops load test unit shows off her new YN3 paint. I feel pretty safe saying this will be the only SD45-2 ever painted YN3!

Out for the week for the GE Annual Shareholders meeting, the Hybrid unit, a new CSX Gevo (CSXT 865), and Rio Tinto 8111 (Australian Export Locomotive) all sit on outside the Convention Center on w... (more)