On an early April day with horrible weather conditions, a brief respite took place long enough to catch this view of CSX ballast train W-072-04, which came down from Toledo early Wednesday morning and then set up for dumping ballast on main 1 east of the TR 43 road crossing at East Fostoria. The train is seen beginning it's ballast dump, powered by CSXT SD50-2 #'s 8639 and recently renumbered 2489, still in Conrail paint.
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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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On an early April day with horrible weather conditions, a brief respite took place long enough to catch this view of CSX ballast train W-072-04, which came down from Toledo early Wednesday morning and then set up for dumping ballast on main 1 east of the TR 43 road crossing at East Fostoria. The train is seen beginning it's ballast dump, powered by CSXT SD50-2 #'s 8639 and recently renumbered 2489, still in Conrail paint.
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