Fostoria report-over 70 trains in less than 24 hours!

[Anonymous]

Wow, that's a lot of action!

Would love to see the pics. [:)]

[JoeKoh]

Andrew
know the 613 rt quite well.used it when rt 18 was closed(now reopen)
glad you had fun
stay safe
Joe

[Junctionfan]

Did I see anybody there either at the station or on a train (csxengineer)?

[Junctionfan]

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.
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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. CSX 683, CSX 611-eastbound 101 cars
11/ 12:36am CSX manifest. FURX 3012, CSX 8603-westbound
12/ 12:48am CSX coal loaded. (too dark to see power) From South to North
13/ 12:55am CSX autos. CSX 8910, RLCX 8588 from west to north
14/ 1:01am CSX coal empties. (darn autoracks in the way-unknown power)
from west to south.
15/ 1:09am NS triplecrown roadrailer. (didn't see power-70 trailers?) west.
16/ 1:15am NS manifest. (from hotel) heading west
17/ 1:45am NS triplecrown roadrailer heading east
18/ 5:00am NS intermodal heading east (mainly trailers)
19/ 7:00am NS coal train. 1 unit, white NS topgons held for CSX for long time
20/ 7:00am NS local. Puttering around Mennel Milling.
21/ 9:15am NS local trying to cross North South line with covered hoppers
22/ 9:16am CSX intermodal-westbound
23/ 9:25am CSX auto train-from east to north
24/ 9:45am CSX / UPS train eastbound with ICEZ, UPS and Martrac trailer
mainly.
25/ 10:00am CSX intermodal-148 cars-eastbound
26/ 10:15am CSX manifest-westbound
27/ 10:25am CSX coal-westbound-using BNSF,GEAX and CEFX bethgons
28/ 10:45am CSX autos-from north to west
29/ 10:50am CSX manifest-from north to east
30/ 11:00am CSX manifest-westbound
31/ 11:05am CSX manifest-from south to east
32/ 11:10am NS manifest-eastbound
33/ 11:17am NS autos-westbound
34/ 12:01pm CSX autoracks, empty frames, autoboxes-from west to north
35/ 1:00pm CSX manifest-westbound-solid NS power
36/ 1:05pm CSX manifest-westbound
37/ 1:25pm CSX autos-from north to west
38/ 1:45pm CSX autos-form north to west
39/ 2:00pm CSX local-heading north from south
40/ 2:02pm CSX autos. CSX 545, CSX 429-from north to east
41/ 2:15pm NS manifest-westbound
42/ 2:20pm CSX lightpower-westbound (not really light-6 units)
43/ 2:30pm CSX autos-from north to south
44/ 3:01pm CSX mixing center local-from south to north
45/ 3:45pm CSX manifest-eastbound
46/ 3:55pm CSX autorack/automax train-from north to west
47/ 4:05pm CSX autos-from north to east
48/ 4:15pm CSX autos. CSX 7714, HLCX 6517-from north to east
49/ 4:45pm NS manifest-eastbound
50/ 4:58pm NS manifest-westbound
51/ 5:05pm CSX mixing center local-from north to south
52/ 5:20pm NS coal empties-1 unit heading eastbound
53/ 5:45pm CSX manifest-CSX 782, CSX 780, CSX 810, HLGX 6825, FURX
3017, CSX 2558-from east to north
54/ 5:55pm CSX autorack/automax-from west to north
55/ 6:15pm CSX switcher-CSX 6131 switching general merchandise about
56/ 6:49pm CSX manifest-after working a yard east of F tower, he went westbound-lots of EPIC trash containers on spine cars.
57/ 7:08pm CSX coal loaded-from south to west-CSX and CR/NYC bethgons.
58/ 7:20pm CSX manifest-westbound
59/ 7:20pm CSX manifest-from north to west
60/ 8:05pm CSX manifest heading east to Fostoria
61/ 8:07pm CSX intermodal heading west at high speed. CSX 9009, CSX 685?
133 cars
62/ 8:20pm CSX manifest heading east to Fostoria
63/ 8:30pm CSX coal train holding on the line-heading east.

During this time I heard at least 30 different horns at the restaurants and at the hotel including an Amtrak horn. Over 70 trains we could have seen.

A lot of the trains, I took pictures of the power so I'll keep you posted and give out the unit numbers missing from my report.

Andrew