Pic of the Day

Friday afternoon brings some rare visitors to Fostoria in several ways: First, Q-369-22 is passing milepost 35 at East Fostoria running in daylight, well past its more typical "midnight run" (many other westbound trains were running well behind "schedule" out of Willard on Friday, too.) Then, a GP35u, and on the lead, courtesy of BNSF 2502 (rebuilt or not...it's a GP35!) Trailing are BNSF GP39-2 # 2721, also a rarity around here (CSX's small fleet of 20 GP39-2's stay almost exclusively in Florida, and NS has none), and, RLCX SW7 (not exactly something you see every day on the main line, either) # 1255 which is waybilled as going to the ICE in Chicago...its final destination is unknown. 1255, in a far-fetched way, is on home rails: It is originally Atlantic Coast Line # 651, later Seaboard Coast Line # 133; and of course, the SCL is an integral part of what is now CSX. Is it February 2007 or February 1982? I guess the paint schemes betray the times; but otherwise.....