Hello everybody…I’m back.
Went to Fostoria on the Sunday and Monday and good heavens, what an experience. We arrived at 11:00pm at the hotel near the NS mainline close to Norton Abrasives. We checked in and headed toward the station. On the way there we got stopped on the way by a westbound intermodal.
We went to the station and stayed for two hours and went back to the hotel and crashed a bit.
The next morning, we had breakfast and went back to the station. We went for lunch and came back for more action. Departing the station to make the long journey back home, 4 trains were about. 2 waiting to go west, 1 heading east from west and a switcher heading south.
After diner, we left to head back to Detroit/ Windsor boarder by taking Route 613 to I-75. Of course we got stopped by 4 trains including an intermodal heading west at about 60 mph.
We arrived back in St.Catharines at 3:30am-I’m a little tired from having to get up at 7am to drop off my cousin at school for 8:30am.
Here are the trains I saw.
Sunday Night.
1/ 11:05pm CSX Intermodal-lots of domestic stacks. CSX 5008, HLCX 7200,
CSX 7669 (before the station) 130 cars
2/ 11:11pm CSX Intermodal mixed. UP 3943, 3817-westbound 98 cars
3/ 11:13pm CSX Manifest ex CR 8645, CSX 7578-eastbound
4/ 11:20pm NS manifest. NS 8793, NS 2549-eastbound
5/ 11:35pm CSX manifest. UP 4341, FURX 7242, FURX 3017-eastbound
6/ 11:45pm CSX intermodal. CSX 7771, CSX 585-eastbound 121 cars
7/ 11:50pm NS autos/intermodal. NS 8924, NS8994-westbound
8/ 11:53pm NS autos/autoboxes. ex CR 8401, NS 6163-eastbound
9/ 12:02am CSX manifest. (too many engines to write out)-BNSF green SD40
leading, CSX engines, UP engines, FURX engine and RLCX grey
unit. Total of 8 engines-eastbound
10/ 12:20am CSX intermodal.