So this past Saturday, I headed up to Deshler for the afternoon and then headed east to Fostoria for dinner and the evening at the park. On Monday, I made another trip to my hometown of Bucyrus, although that wasn’t intended as a railfanning trip.
As I arrived in Deshler, an eastbound mixed freight was crossing over from track 1 to the southwest transfer track to turn south. I drove past the park to wait for it at the crossing. Once it cleared, I circled back around to the park, seeing a westbound train approaching and the signals lined up for an eastbound.
As I parked the Jeep, I heard the westbound intermodal train approaching. With no time to grab my tripod, I started recording. As the rear of the intermodal disappeared from sight, and eastbound empty hopper train accelerated past.
Shortly after the empty hopper train disappeared, two locomotives running light came north and stopped short of the crossing before heading back south. Again, I didn’t have a chance to get the tripod.
A northbound mixed freight heads through Deshler.
A northbound mixed freight turned east at Deshler.
An eastbound mixed freight with Union Pacific power heads through Deshler.
An eastbound intermodal train heads through Deshler. As the DPU locomotive on the rear goes past, you can hear that it is in dynamic braking as the train is preparing to stop east of town because the previous eastbound had gone into emergency east of Deshler.
A westbound intermodal train heads through Deshler.
A westbound intermodal train heads through Deshler.