Norfolk Southern's Central of Georgia heritage unit and EMD demonstrator number 2012 team up on the point of the Bellevue-bound 11V as the train trundles across the Cleveland Drawbridge.

A buck (found in the left side of the frame) takes a moment to analyze the scene as CHBR 2369 and CCRL 2377 head north light at the Calvary Cemetery just outside of Cleveland.

On a hot, late summer day, NS 60T blasts across the Vermilion River with the Illinois Terminal and Conrail heritage units in command.

The Illinois Terminal and Conrail heritage units team up to power an eastbound steel coil train bound for Weirton, WV across the Maumee River swing bridge.

Though the 2369 is now lettered for the upcoming Cleveland Harbor Belt Railroad, the engine is still making the regular runs on the CCR's network, powering trains out of Falls Junction in Glenwill... (more)

At 0400 on the dot, the dispatcher lines Q508 through the northwest connection in Deshler and all the way up to Perrysburg on the Toledo Subdivision.

The dawn isn't too far off as a westbound hotshot makes quick work of the small settlement called Ancona.

A cool, starry night in western Illinois found a couple friends and I doing night shots on former ATSF rails, now the BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision.

NS local job C11 grabs a couple cars from EK Steel in Masury before proceeding west on the old Erie mainline to Hubbard.

A quiet summer night on the C&O yielded a few nice results for me, including this shot of the intermediate signals at Longley backed by the stars shifiting across the sky.

Conrail's Carrothers Branch used to run from Walbridge to the line's namesake town on the old N&W. The line is now abandoned east of Tiffin, but the NOW Railway still operates the railroad betwee... (more)

More often than not, Q637 is a one-unit-wonder , and today is no exception. The lone GE in charge chugs past the C&O signals and grain elevator and Risingsun, struggling to maintain a decent clip... (more)

A Herzog ballast train watches the stars in the sky while tied down in the west siding at South Deshler. Meanwhile, a southbound UP ethanol train lights up the scene after turning the corner off ... (more)

The 20th day of July 2012 is just about in the books, and the C&O signals at Risingsun are still going strong.

An assortment of nine engines (six of which are dead in tow) head up an eastbound manifest at Rural Retreat not long after daybreak on the Pulaski District.