Night Chasing Archive
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Back to our Roots
Posted on January 12, 2013 | No CommentsLast Friday night we decided to go back to our roots and just follow a train track at nig ht and see what we end up with. We had a grand plan on going from Anna to Lima to follow the CF&E to Fort Wayne,... -
Deshler 9/6/12
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsSince Steve and I are going to be here Deshler for about a week, I thought instead of waiting for the end to post I will try to post multiple times a day so the posts won’t be so long. As I said we got... -
End of Deshler 6/16/12
Posted on June 26, 2012 | No CommentsSorry it has taken me so long to finish the post about Deshler at Father’s Day, I have been busy cleaning house and looking for a job. At 3:01 am the train we had heard on the scanner that was in Ottawa (Putnam County) finally... -
Live at Deshler 6/16/12 Part 2
Posted on June 16, 2012 | No CommentsThought I would update the action at Deshler again. About 40 minutes of waiting the next train came at 1:06 am It was a eastbound double stack intermodal of 48 cars headed by CSX 520,CSX 592 and 5293. Fifteen minutes later the L138-15 came through... -
Live From Deshler, 6/15-6/16/12
Posted on June 16, 2012 | No CommentsThis is a live post from Deshler, Henry County. Steve and I decided to bring Dad up here for Father’s Day. We left Anna at around 9 PM. There was a southbounder going through Anna as we left. We saw our first train on Eversole... -
Glendale 9/14/11
Posted on September 14, 2011 | 1 CommentOn our way down we got stopped by NS train 289 with 40 auto racks. A bit later just north of Seven Mile on US 127 we saw a 40 car mixed freight head north (railroad west) lead by NS 9364. 11:03 brought us ou... -
August 3-4 Chase, Part 2
Posted on August 6, 2011 | No CommentsRight after I finished part one of this trip we immediately had an eastbound intermodal lead by CSX 7823 and CSX 5391 pulling 153 cars. Less than five minutes after this one cleared the park a westbound mixed train came through lead by CSX 5350,... -
One Crappy Night
Posted on April 9, 2011 | No CommentsBack on the 22nd and 23rd of March I had the brilliant idea to follow the NS New Castle District from Eaton to Muncie. We started out and saw no trains. Just out side of Richmond I made the decision to follow it all the... -
Recent Chases
Posted on February 16, 2011 | No CommentsFor the last week or two Steve and I have been out doing some night chasing. We have stayed relatively local to our house. We have been leaving at about 11:30 PM and getting home anywhere between 2 and 3 AM depending on how busy... -
Marion Morning
Posted on July 15, 2010 | 3 CommentsTrip to Marion on July 12, 2010
