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    Comment by 'crook' in media 'What is that stuff?'

    ran over a muppet.
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    Comment by 'crook' in media 'Amtrak Cascades North'

    It is a little tight, maybe next time you could give it a little more breathing room to the left. Eye level and tight makes the left side of the frame look like an accident.
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  3. Sunset Boxcars

    Sunset Boxcars

    A pair of boxcars wait for pickup on a shortline siding in Ohio in August, 2006.
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    • Category: Freight Cars
  4. Into the Light

    Into the Light

    A former Amtrak geep leads Ohio Central\'s Newark-Zanesville Turn through the southeast Ohio woods and west into the setting sun.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  5. Street Runnin'

    Street Runnin'

    Ohio Central coal train the GLT (Glouster Turn) splits Dresden, Ohio on a right of way right down the middle of a street.
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Eastern United States
  6. Gloom

    Gloom

    Gp30 4218 rolls into the Zanesville, Ohio yard in the evening gloom, highlighted by snow flurries.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  7. Leaving Town

    Leaving Town

    Ohio Central's 3253 leads the Newark-Zanesville turn across State Street in Zanesville Ohio during a then-rare evening departure. Visitors to Zanesville these days can be treated to an evening departure most nights of the week as the train heads into the setting sun all the way to Newark.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  8. Thundering South

    Thundering South

    BNSF 5234 leads empty coal train 851 south under CSX's former C&O near Cillicothe, Ohio.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
  9. Last Light North

    Last Light North

    The last rays of sunlight reflect off the gleaming nose an EMD Sd70m-2 as leads autoracks and containers north through Circleville, Ohio.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
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    Comment by 'crook' in media 'Jefferson Warrior Railroad 53'

    A fascinating industrial scene.
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  11. Greggs Hill

    Greggs Hill

    CSX AC44 43 leads coal train V109 south through Greggs Hill, Ohio, on June 30, 2006.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
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    Comment by 'crook' in media 'GLT Northbound'

    There is a backup move required when the train passes through Zanesville. The rear engine is a helper when required, and then shut down. The lead engines are shut down when heading south, and the rear engine pulls the empties. Thus an EOT is required, as the rear engine, apart from when it is a...
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  13. GLT Northbound

    GLT Northbound

    Former CSX Sd20 rebuild leads Ohio Central's Glouster Turn north of Zanesville Ohio on Thursday, June 29, 2006.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
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    Comment by 'crook' in media 'Enclouded'

    Four tracks, four sets of signals. The other bridge faces the other way, so westbounds have instructions. Lots of crossovers on this line, so the various signal indications will tell trains if there is a train being crossed over in front of them, etc. The two sets of three on the left are...
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  15. Enclouded

    Enclouded

    A westbound CSX local passes under the NYC-era signal bridges at CP 431 near Buffalo, NY after an early morning snow in February, 2006. The train consisted mostly of salt hoppers.
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    • Category: Eastern United States
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