It's beginning to look a lot like Spring! CSX Q501 gets its turn to head down the New Castle District behind CSXT 565 and CSXT 87 with a shorter-than-normal cargo load. It's counterpart train, CSX... (more)

CSXT 451 leads southbound manifest freight Q501 on the NS Dayton District, passing under the MP 252 signals and the old Jim Beam Distillery in Carthage, Ohio.

Q501 starts to make the turn from the Garrett Sub to the Toledo Sub with a Santa Fe warbonnet Dash 9 leading a mixed collection of CSX power.

A veteran Santa Fe Warbonnet leads an assortment of CSX power on Q501 as they start around the connection track at Deshler to head south on the Toledo Subdivision

Q501 rumbles across the NKP with CSX 688 in charge of a large train. Also providing power is a random CSX D8 and NREX 8628, 2706, 2683, 2734, and 2711 all in SP paint.

Q501 turns south at Deshler with four big GE's and a lone SD80MAC 5th out with a pretty sizeable train.

On a rather nasty spring day, an eastbound freight is spied between a couple of derelict Massey-Ferguson combines on the outskirts of Holgate.

Q501 is rolling south out of the siding and onto the main to continue their trip to Cincy - protected by a recently repainted ex-B&O CPL.

A nice wide cab free consist leads Q501 east past the old tower at Walkerton.

CSX Q501 with a new crew is leaving Lima yard.

CSX Q501 heads for Cincinnati, Ohio into the early morning sun.

Crossing the NS Huntington District at St. Joe

CSXT 5966, ex-NS 4804, exx-CR 5068, a B40-8 leads train Q501 southbound on the Toledo sub north of Carlisle

BNSF 4151 leads a southbound train on the CSX Toledo sub