Norfolk Southern continues to add trains to the schedule that use the Nickel Plate via Ft. Wayne.....as a result, the NS Fostoria District is getting busier and busier. On Sunday night, train 17K (Bellvue, OH - Tolono, IL/CNIC freight; NS C40-9W #'s 8956 & 8961) starts to pull west after traffic on the C&O has cleared, while an NS local/yard job lead by NS SD40-2 # 3326 uses the transfer track to the CSX for headroom. The eastbound signal is lit green for NS 272 (Kansas City, MO - Bellvue, OH auto racks) who will head into the Fostoria Mixing Center at Meyer to make its set offs and pick ups before heading on to Bellvue.
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March 5th, 2008:
Spring may be on the way soon, but it was certainly not here yet on this winter morning of storm recovery, full of snow, ice, and grey skies.
Through the scene next to old B&O depot in Fostoria blasts BNSF SD70MAC # 9618, looking rather ghostly with its "BN" logo no longer on the nose. She is leading CSXT train U-994-04 (Cicero, IL/BNSF - Colona, PA Powder River coal loads) eastbound on B&O main # 2, along with BNSF SD70MAC # 9404, also in the "executive" colors. Both units also have fairly newly applied "swoosh" patches on the sides of the cabs, not visible here.
The winter weather delayed many trains on this day, but didn't keep the Fostoria Rails from being just as busy as ever.
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Norfolk Southern continues to add trains to the schedule that use the Nickel Plate via Ft. Wayne.....as a result, the NS Fostoria District is getting busier and busier. On Sunday night, train 17K (Bellvue, OH - Tolono, IL/CNIC freight; NS C40-9W #'s 8956 & 8961) starts to pull west after traffic on the C&O has cleared, while an NS local/yard job lead by NS SD40-2 # 3326 uses the transfer track to the CSX for headroom. The eastbound signal is lit green for NS 272 (Kansas City, MO - Bellvue, OH auto racks) who will head into the Fostoria Mixing Center at Meyer to make its set offs and pick ups before heading on to Bellvue.
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