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Marion, April 14, 2013
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsOn April 14 this year Steven and I made a long awaited early morning (middle of night) trip to Marion, hoping to catch many trains and maybe even a Heritage Unit or two. Waking up at 2:30 am we left our house at 3:00 am... -
March 7, 2013
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsYesterday, was one of my days off of work this week and Emily and I headed north to Lima to do some shopping and of course we had to watch trains. The drive up was uneventful in as much so that we did not even... -
Deshler 9/8/12 Part One
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsGonna a try a new format. 7:55 am – west – CSX 266, CSX 99 – 132 – intermodals 8:03 am – west to south – CSX 5371, CSX 7713 – n/c mixed – Q316 8:15 am – west – BNSF 4365, BNSF 4712, BNSF... -
Deshler 9/7/12 Part Two
Posted on September 8, 2012 | No CommentsI wanted to update the blog every three or four hours, but with the weather yesterday (severe storms and later 10 hours of heavy rain) I was not able to, but I will finish it now. After the train at 1:56 pm Steven and I... -
Cool Things from the First Day of Vacation
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsWe have had some real cool things happen in the first 25 hours of vacation at Deshler (25 since arriving in Deshler) 1. We have seen 63 trains in Deshler alone 2. We have seen 9 (2 engines twice)BNSF engines, 3 UP, 2 CN 3.... -
Deshler 9/7/12 Part One
Posted on September 7, 2012 | No CommentsThe first train of the day came at 12:04 am and it was a west bound mixed with 73 powered by CSX 7654 and CSX 7511. Twenty minutes later was a west bound intermodal of 50 pulled by CSX 699 and CSX 38. 9 minutes... -
Number of Engines we Have Seen
Posted on June 26, 2012 | No CommentsAfter reading in a North American Railroads: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, by Brian Solomon, that as of 2009 CSX had over 4,000 engines it got me thinking about how many of that number had we seen since we started keeping our train log. So I sat... -
Huelsy’s Train Blog Rail Tour 2012
Posted on November 30, 2011 | 2 CommentsAfter a poorly planned Huelsy’s Train Blog Rail Tour 2011, we decided to plan ahead much better. I had read a book in early July and the B&O and decided to go to Baltimore to visit the museum. The trip was planned in late July/early August... -
Number of Engines Seen Part 5 (November 2011)
Posted on November 14, 2011 | No CommentsThis is current as of 11/14/11. Increase of engines seen since last update in () AK Steel- 2 Allied Metal- 2 Amtrak- 57 BNSF- 73 (17) Buckingham Branch- 2 CBNS(Cape Brenton & Nova Scotia)- 1 CEFX- 5 (3) CF&E(Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern)- 6 (1)... -
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...
