In the middle of a VERY busy Sunday night around the Iron Triangle, NS train 59A (anyone with details on this train's info, please e-mail Fostoria Rails!) is occupying first the B&O diamond, and then the C&O diamond as well, for about 15 minutes, while picking up a grain train from the Blanchard Valley grain elevator in Fostoria. NS C40-9W # 9881 eases across the B&O diamond eastbound with NS C40-8 # 8765 while working the elevator.
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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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In the middle of a VERY busy Sunday night around the Iron Triangle, NS train 59A (anyone with details on this train's info, please e-mail Fostoria Rails!) is occupying first the B&O diamond, and then the C&O diamond as well, for about 15 minutes, while picking up a grain train from the Blanchard Valley grain elevator in Fostoria. NS C40-9W # 9881 eases across the B&O diamond eastbound with NS C40-8 # 8765 while working the elevator.
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