Empty ethanol tanks head west with a CSX GEVO in the lead

A CSX autorack features an SD50 on the point. This is a welcome change from the seemingly endless parade of GEVOs seen on CSX rails.

Norfolk Southern 15N approaching the interlocking at CP 194 in Berea

A CSXT Dash 8 widecab leads Q161 through Berea with less than an hour until sunset

Norfolk Southern 11V on a sunny winter afternoon.

CSX Manifest Q377 more often than not sports Union Pacific power, but this edition features a pair of CSXT locomotives instead.

A unit train of empty ethanol cars heads west under sunny skies that are expected to be replaced by another heavy snow in the next 2 days.

A welcome but short-lived sunny period greets Q377 as it passes the BE Tower

An ex D&RGW GP35, now part of the Wheeling and Lake Erie stable, does switching duty in Spencer, Ohio

A relatively clean warbonnet on the point of Q380

Empty westbound coal drag N859-18 rumbles past the defunct Station Restaurant in Berea, Ohio

A BNSF Dash9 in Heritage I paint leads Q393 seconds before it passes under the new Front Street bridge in Berea, Ohio

Westbound empty coal drag at MP22 on the Cleveland Short Line Sub

If not for the new signal gantry seen here at CP194 one might think this scene is from a decade ago when Conrail still ruled these rails and SD40-2's were commonplace.

Q393 with BNSF power passes under the span of the new bridge under constuction that will raise Front Street over both the CSXT and the Norfolk Southern right of ways, thus eliminating 2 grade cros... (more)