It must be closing in on "maintenance season" again...work trains are starting to show up, and the maintenance crews are out in full force...and, it's March! Although, they've certainly been busy just keeping this railroad afloat in the last few months. W062, a ballast train that will take the northwest transer to Toledo (powered by CSX SD50-2 # 2486, recently downgraded and subsequently "patch" renumbered from CSX SD50 # 8655 (it's also the former Conrail # 6731)) on main 1, and a hi-railing maintenance truck that will head straight east on the B&O past F Tower on main 2, are side by side for a few moments as they pass the B&O depot Thursday afternoon.
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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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It must be closing in on "maintenance season" again...work trains are starting to show up, and the maintenance crews are out in full force...and, it's March! Although, they've certainly been busy just keeping this railroad afloat in the last few months. W062, a ballast train that will take the northwest transer to Toledo (powered by CSX SD50-2 # 2486, recently downgraded and subsequently "patch" renumbered from CSX SD50 # 8655 (it's also the former Conrail # 6731)) on main 1, and a hi-railing maintenance truck that will head straight east on the B&O past F Tower on main 2, are side by side for a few moments as they pass the B&O depot Thursday afternoon.
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