CSX train K-698-05 (Blue Island, IL - Selkirk, NY unit ethanol loads) cruises eastbound on B&O main 1 across Columbus Avenue Friday afternoon with CSXT C44-9W # 9022 and HLCX SD40-2 # 7187 in solid blue. There is no shortage of ethanol trains now running through Fostoria, and even more of this type of rail business will show up here when new ethanol plants in Fostoria, Marion, and Leipsic open up in the next year or so.
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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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CSX train K-698-05 (Blue Island, IL - Selkirk, NY unit ethanol loads) cruises eastbound on B&O main 1 across Columbus Avenue Friday afternoon with CSXT C44-9W # 9022 and HLCX SD40-2 # 7187 in solid blue. There is no shortage of ethanol trains now running through Fostoria, and even more of this type of rail business will show up here when new ethanol plants in Fostoria, Marion, and Leipsic open up in the next year or so.
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