Nickel Plate Road ordered twenty SD9 units in 1957, for use in the coalfields of the Nickel Plate's Wheeling District. These units were built without dynamic brakes, an unusual feature for the ... (more)

A northbound manifest passes by "Gar" on the Scottslawn Subdivision at the site where the former EL Dayton Branch crossed. The switch indicator signal and the trackage into the Honda pla... (more)

An Ohio Central stone extra breaks the silence of a quiet Sunday morning in the small town Toboso, Ohio as it rolls east behind a trio of SD40-2's. The lead units are still wearing the paint from ... (more)

Built with C30-7 style carbodies, early C36-7s are typical of General Electric's locomotive modle evolution. The only visible external difference between these early C36 models and C30 models i... (more)

Foreign power is pretty common these days on the NS Chicago Line, but a true CSX leading is still a bit of a rarity. Shown here, what looks like a fresh rebuild leads a frac sand train across the... (more)

It's pretty rare to see an SD40E leading a stack train on the NS Chicago mainline. Shown here, the recently added train L15 heads west through Vermilion, OH, with a throwback leader.

The evening southbound manifest has foreign power with Union Pacific and BNSF power as it heads towards Youngstown on a steamy summer day.

Aboard a very late Q573 we meet an also very late Q574 near CT Junction.

CPL ghosts- Heavy morning fog envelops the Norfolk & Western color position lights on Norfolk Southern’s Peavine in southern Ohio. These intermediates near Rarden are like many others along the ... (more)

NS intermodal train 200 races the sunset through the cornfields of Western Ohio in the small community of Somerville on the final evening of July.

As work continues on the move of the former B&O / CH&D Depot in Hamilton from its original location to a new location a few hundred feet away (still trackside but farther away from active rails), ... (more)

A rare appearance of KCSM power is on the NS 22k as it rolls alongside Lake Erie.

Bessemer & Lake Erie tunnel motor BLE 905 leads ex. DMIR SD38 BLE 862 as they depart from Conneaut, Ohio and cross over Conneaut Creek with a few bad order ore cars in tow. The crew came north and... (more)

A well worn CSX YN2 AC4400 leads coal train C547 northbound on Main 1 of the former B&O Cincinnati to Toledo mainline in Springdale.

Running on CSX’s former C&O main this EB grain train rounds a sweeping curve as Summerail participants look on admiringly. I sometimes pays to hike a little.