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Now departing with a short business train is Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway SD40-2 No. 1776!

I don’t have any green BN trucks so the railfan is driving a Nickel Plate Road pickup truck.

More action with SD9m Norfolk Southern No. 2358 on a short local freight train

Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 racing west along the old Nickel Plate Road mainline past the long out of service Lorain Ford Plant rail yard which straddles the boarder between Vermilion and Lorain on July 13, 2026.

When I a kid this place was hopping with hundreds of new vehicles being loaded onto auto carrier cars 24/7. Now the northern car lot is used as an impound lot while nature has been reclaiming the tracks.

Parts of the Ford Plant have been turned over to other companies or simply torn down, the passing siding along Lake Erie and Fairlane Yard off the old New York Central Railroad are used for car storage by Norfolk Southern.

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Now that Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 is back home in Cheyenne, WY I can focus on the little things in life.

Those little things being little trains, like this model of Nickel Plate Road No. 358 during its Norfolk Southern days. Yes, I know it was actually numbered 57 at the end of its career but you know that N&W numbering system was an easy way to tell what locomotives belonged to which predecessor.

The four beautifully detailed freight cars are all new arrivals from Atlas. The NS caboose is from MTH.

One year ago today Little River Railroad No. 1 and No. 110 teamed up with Nickel Plate Road No. 765 for two Triple Header Excursions to celebrate the Little River Railroad’s 20th anniversary.

This is the first run departing Coldwater, Michigan.

July 27, 2025

Highballing through Montgomery, Michigan on the Indiana Northeastern Railroad, the Fort Wayne Railroad Member’s Day Train behind Nickel Plate Road No. 765.