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A pair of standard cab NS EMDs idle near the old Wheeling-Pitt steel mill, just south of Mingo Junction, Ohio. (9 Jul 2016)

NS 776 running west through Coshocton, Ohio, on the Ohio Central, bound for the Progress Energy Hyco plant in North Carolina. (29 June 2018)

Reconnected with a childhood friend earlier this month (we last chased trains together in 1984) to see what CSX and NS had to offer at Marion, Ohio. This was the scene, capping 12 hours of railfanning a great location: a pair of NS trains (the last two of 37 trains we saw) perform a rolling meet...

Went on a solo railfan vacation last year to pick up some things I missed the year before that. Here's a taste of what I saw. One thing I wanted was the sun in the right spot for the signature street-running shot at La Grange, Kentucky, which meant getting there in the morning. The previous...

Right, the live webcam at La Grange. Been there the past two summers. Great place to catch a train.

Hello world. I'm Jake. My primary hobby is train chasing: I'm what's known as a railfan. Been interested in trains since I was a little boy back in the 1960s, what with the B&O running coal trains past my bedroom window night and day. My first camera was a Kodak Hawkeye Instamatic II that shot...