T361-29 sits in the siding at ZK Cabin as Q310 passes on the main. The bridge on which 5108 is sitting is over Kinnikinnick Creek and during a portion of WWII, my grandfather protected this bridge... (more)

The Northern Sub is still a haven for C&O signals, and KN Cabin is only one example. Here, an eastbound grain train knocks down the cantilever and KN led by a GE that appears to have had a minor r... (more)

The UPS train, NS 218 heads east on the single main, as the clouds in the background begin to start rolling in.

With Santee Cooper empties from the Cross, SC plant, T361-29 eases out of the center siding at Vauces headed back to the interchange with the CN at Effingham, IL. This train will meet a loaded cou... (more)

The NS 233 rounds the bend, and splits the Reneck signal, heading west through Chillicothe.

A westbound empty hopper train waits on the siding on the bridge, next to a field of soybeans.

Not the normal power you find a a coal drag these days, but today the NS 852 had a SD70 leading, and a SD60 trailing, heading west to Columbus to be handed over to Ohio Central to take to Mingo jc... (more)

Grain train NS 55Z splits the signals at Lunbeck, as it heads off the single main.

NS SD70 2533 and former HLCX SD60 6549 just acquired by NS roll train 189 off the single track and over the equilateral turnout at CP-Lunbeck halfway between Portsmouth and Columbus. Sure wish I w... (more)

The K174 moving at a good rate of speed splits the signal at JD Cabin, the track to the right connects with the old B&O, which now is used to serve a few local industries in town.

The westbound K174 rounds the bend, coming off the single main, as it heads under the old cantilever signals at RA Cabin.

With grain empties from Portsmouth, VA to Wellsboro, IN, CSXT 410 leads train G845 westbound on the former C&O Russell, KY to Columbus, OH Northern Subdivision. RA Jct. is the east end of double t... (more)

After a quick dip in black paint by US Rail's Hamden, OH shop, HLCX 1010 sits in the tail track at the east end of Vauces Center Siding. The unit was built as GP40 SCL 1570 and after being sold by... (more)

A westbound empty grain train crosses the Kinnikinnick Creek bridge in the sweet evening light of a brutally hot day in southern Ohio.

A C40-8 with a beat up paint job leads the NS 17M out of the woods and through the Lunbeck interlocking, and back onto the double track.