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SQSC GP15ACs 717 and 737 charge through South Pittsburg, TN with 27 cars bound for industries in Jasper, TN. A typical consist for this line is one locomotive with around 10-15 cars so seeing almost double that was a cool sight.

ILSX 1304 leads the southbound Lakeville turn through the trees and farm fields.

NLR's entire roster is seen here resting in their St. Cloud yard.

GATX 406, MNA 3073 and AKMD 2505 inside the Arkansas Midland shops in Jones Mill, AR near Hot Springs.

ILSX 1304 leads the southbound return of the Lakeville Turn through Eureka Center

UPY 700 and UPY 705 pull an empty gondola along N Madison St in Rockford, Illinois.

UCRY units 1418 and UCRY 3810 power a local freight at their small yard in Ogden, Utah on a beautiful fall morning. Both units sport the Patriot Rail paint scheme.

On a oddly warm December morning, a friend and I are headed out towards Bartow, FL to find ourselves the brand new FCEN GP15's in a brand new, fresh coat of SCL paint. As we pull in, we are greeted by the 2 GP15's, which honestly look so much better in person.

A new Carolina Costal heritage unit trails third out on NS 125 which appears to be sporting the original Norfolk Southern paint

Former UPY 669 trailing third out on BNSF L-CHI6571-17I. The unit now belongs with Southwestern energy supplies.

The RJ Corman Jett Local makes a pickup of covered hoppers on the outskirts of Frankfort, KY with Ex-CSX GP15-1 1561 doing the honors in prime golden light

As another beautiful late summer day dawns on the Ohio Valley, CSX local freight J787-25, known locally as the St. Joe Job, heads west out of Cincinnati on the former Baltimore & Ohio Railroad mainline to St. Louis (today CSX's Indiana Subdivision), passing the classic B&O Doll Arm Mast CPL signal and the Dwarf Signal at the East End of Delhi Siding in the Cincinnati suburb of Delhi, Ohio. Sadly, these signals have since been replaced.

A weekend extra move on the CCET's former N&W Peavine Line rolls eastbound in the small community of Perintown behind both of the railroad's attractively painted EMD GP15's.

Running long hood forward like trains on this line commonly did back in N&W and early NS days, CCET GP15-1 No. 1657 and SD40-2 No. 3512 lead a 53 car eastbound freight over the East Fork of the Little Miami River in Batavia on a warm Fall morning.

The first revenue stone train for the Cincinnati Eastern out of the quarry at Plum Run departs the quarry, passing the out of service N&W CPL's that still stand guard on the Peavine.

The CCET's pair of GP15's roll the first revenue stone train out of the quarry at the east end of the CCET's trackage on the old N&W Peavine Route at Plum Run westbound through the small town of Williamsburg, Ohio.

CCET 1686 leads a short eastbound stone train unloading at the Hanson Aggregates facility along Roundbottom Road in Milford.