Wait just a minute!...This train appears to be running the wrong line! Apparently not, as this is Norfolk Southern train 27N, despite the obvious "foreign" power, beginning to accelarate west over the C&O diamond in Fostoria on Sunday afternoon. CSXT C40-8W # 7744 is paired with GCFX SD40-2 # 3101 as this train of loaded auto racks departs, bound for Ft. Wayne and then on to Chicago, according to the Fostoria district dispatcher. The power was last on CSX rails in Cleveland earlier in the day. 27N is not a regular train on NS through Fostoria, so if anyone has any additional information on this one, please e-mail it to Fostoria Rails or post a comment! Thanks!
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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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Wait just a minute!...This train appears to be running the wrong line! Apparently not, as this is Norfolk Southern train 27N, despite the obvious "foreign" power, beginning to accelarate west over the C&O diamond in Fostoria on Sunday afternoon. CSXT C40-8W # 7744 is paired with GCFX SD40-2 # 3101 as this train of loaded auto racks departs, bound for Ft. Wayne and then on to Chicago, according to the Fostoria district dispatcher. The power was last on CSX rails in Cleveland earlier in the day. 27N is not a regular train on NS through Fostoria, so if anyone has any additional information on this one, please e-mail it to Fostoria Rails or post a comment! Thanks!
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Amazing, you make train spotting exciting, this journal is fascinating!
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