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    Marion, April 14, 2013

    On 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...

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    Deshler 9/10/12 Part 3

    Here is last night’s update: 9 pm – 10 pm 9:01 pm – east to north – CSX 7314, CSX 7348 – mixed – 169 – Q324 9:11 pm – east – CSX 7675, CSX 7325 – mixed – Q388 9:21 pm – east –...

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    Deshler 9/10/12 Part 2

    Here is the afternoon update. It has been relatively slow on the Garrett/Willard Sub for the whole afternoon because the defect detector at BI 93.0 was acting up and giving false hot box readings. Until CSX took it off line temporarily all trains going west...

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    Deshler 9/10/12 Part 1

    Today we took a field trip over to Hamler and Holgate and then up to Haskins and down through the little towns along the tracks (Toledo Sub) to look at what neat things they have there. So for about 3 hours we were out of...

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    Deshler 9/9/12 Part 3

    This is the 6pm – 9pm update for today! 6 pm – 7 pm 6:36 pm – east – BNSF 7803, BNSF 7408 – intermodal – 53 7 pm – 8 pm 7:13 pm – east – CSX 487, CSX 730 – intermodal – 23...

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    Deshler 9/9/2012 Part 2

    Here’s today’s latest 2 pm – 3 pm 2:52 pm – east – UP 7647, UP 8406, UP 8614 – reefers – 69 – Q090 3 pm – 4 pm 3:03 pm – west – CSX 97, CSX 353 – intermodal – 117 – Q015...

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  • A CSX intermodel passes through Fostoria

    Deshler 9/8/12 Part 2

    3:52 pm – north – CSX 103, CSX 316 – coal – 128 4:27 pm – east – CSX 5437, CSX 319, CSX 8448 – ethanol – 81 -  coal hopper front buffer car 4:29 pm – west – CSX 59, CSX 5323 – 92...

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  • CSX engine coming

    Deshler 9/8/12 Part One

    Gonna 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...

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    Deshler 9/7/12 Part Two

    I 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...

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    Cool Things from the First Day of Vacation

    We 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....

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