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Steam, electric, and diesel power were present at Steamtown's boarding platform at the start of the day. The EL twins greeted BLW #26 and Philadelphia Suburban Transport #76 while they picked up riders for each of their respective trips.

With an on time departure of 3:00pm from Angola, Indiana, NKP 765 begins its journey back to Hillsdale with a fall colors excursion in tow. After crossing County Road 400 N in Fremont, the train enters a spectacular tree tunnel of green and yellow foliage.

Nickel Plate Road 765, a 2-8-4, S-2 "Berkshire" steam locomotive built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1944, is seen here passing the Indiana/Michigan state border. It is seen passing the Indiana/Michigan state border in Ray, MI. The 765 is pulling the Indiana Rail Experience’s "Fall Colors Train", hosted by the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society and the Indiana Northeastern Railroad. As said, directly from the IRE’s website, "Named Indiana’s 'Best New Experience' by the Indiana Tourism Association, the Indiana Rail Experience offers a variety of trips and events including hour-long rides, themed event trains, and all-day excursions aboard our historic passenger trains."

Passing by at the time, the new crossing in Fremont, it was closed at the time. This was a nice chase. And with no high sun.

Prior to the Carolina Southern being purchased by RJ Corman

GT GP9R leads a pull-down out of Kirk Yard with a CN Repaint trailing

A clean CSX unit still in nice looking "YN2" or "Bright Future" paint, and an honest to goodness set of B&O Color Position Light Signals with no replacement nearby was getting to be a rare sight in 2018, as on this cold but sunny December morning, CSX auto rack train Q256-07 splits a set of the classic B&O relics in the tiny community of Pierceville, Indiana, headed eastbound on the CSX Indiana Subdivision. Somehow, this set of CPL's has survived a purge and are still standing sentinel in 2023, but their days are surely numbered.

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.

After going a photo run by at the Michigan-Indiana border. The 765 is heading South on it's way back to Edon OH where it began its journey this morning

CSX train Q352-04 splits the classic B&O CPL signals in the small community of Pierceville on the Indiana Subdivision with a classic EMD SD40-2 leader. Even though the 8801 is a former Conrail unit, in YN3 paint she looks right at home on the old B&O St. Louis mainline.

CSX train Q576-12 fights through a significant snow squall along Southside Avenue in Sedamsville.

INRD SAHW heads west through Morgantown, IN with a pair of SD90MAC’s in the lead. The lease for these ends at the end of December 2022, so get them while you can!

N&W J Class 611 is readying to stroll onto the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum on Saturday September 19, 2020.

Nickel Plate Road 765 passes the Grain Elevator near Reading, MI.

Nickel Plate Road 765 passes a farm outside of Edon, Ohio. This drone pace shot had a shutter speed of .6 seconds.