The Reading and Lehigh Valley units team up on a coal train bound for Detroit.

The rural Ohio corn isn't looking the best as the drought of 2012 continues. Meanwhile the coal continues to roll, this time behind the Reading and Lehigh Valley units late in the afternoon just n... (more)

Heritage unit Reading Lines 1067 leads a loaded coal north east of Delaware, Ohio on the NS Sandusky District bound for Detroit.

The Reading and Lehigh Valley units are just south of Delaware, OH as they team up on a coal train bound for Detroit.

NS 864 wastes no time hauling its 114 car coal drag north toward Bellevue.

During the chase of the RDG 1067 there were many times that we thought the clouds would beat us to the next spot. Well, sometimes you get lucky with a sucker hole of sun. NS 864 heads through the ... (more)

The Reading Lines unit takes the helm of NS 864 which is destined for Detroit.

A roster shot of the NS heritage unit on the point of a Detroit bound coal train.

NS Heritage unit waits for a new crew in Toledo to continue up to Detroit.

NS Heritage far from "home rails" pulls a coal train across the southeastern Michigan farm fields. The foreground track is the CN Shoreline Sub.

Sometimes things just come together! A NS 353 with typical for that train CN power rolls past the NS heritage unit holding the main with their coal train while a PRB coal train sits in the wagon ... (more)

Curving down off the Toledo District NS 864 is heading onto the Chicago mainline towards Toledo.

Rolling north over the Portage river on their way west NS 864 is about to fly over the NS Chicago main and then take the Oak Harbor connection to join it.

With coal for a Detroit Edison plant in Michigan, NS 864 has topped Kingston Hill as it roll west out of the foothills of southern Ohio.

A coal train spends Thanksgiving in kind of an odd spot, sitting close to CW Tower. This area was once Pennor yard, NW's Joyce Ave yard was just to the south of where I am standing. The weeds have... (more)