An old CR SD50 leads an empty Powder River Train through Alliance, OH. Bayard Branch. This train unloads at Stratton, OH. First Energy Power Plant.

An old CR SD50 leads an empty Powder River Train through Alliance, OH. Bayard Branch. This train unloads at Stratton, OH. First Energy Power Plant.

NS 417, the sister train to NS 416, the train i saw just the other day returns with the same lashup, but as luck would have it Rockport Yard in Cleveland did not take off the NS D9-40CW they use f... (more)

A pair of ex-Conrail SD80MACs and a couple of BNSF GEs bring an empty coal train through rural Pettisville, Ohio, on a mild winter evening.

Power sits and waits to be put back on the empty coal train to head west.

A picture-perfect evening in the village of Pettisville is briefly disturbed by a pair of big BNSF EMD's leading an empty coal train west on Norfolk Southern's Chicago Line.

With the typical NS-BNSF-BNSF lashup, empty hopper train 417 passes Pottery Addition on a chilly spring morning.

Conrail and BNSF have always looked good together in my opinion, and here we see just that as an empty BNSF coal train strolls toward Rockside Road with a blue cab-signal-equipped leader.

Westbound coal empties passes a red barn just east of Butler at MP 355 on the NS Chicago Line.

Elephant-style ACe's lead NS 417 west.

NS 417 heads up out of the Cuyahoga Valley with a train full of empty Powder River Coal hoppers. At Rockport Yard, only about five miles away, the old CR SD50 will be cut off, as west of Clevelan... (more)