In the very last moments of sunlight on this day, NS 145 with the Erie heritage units begins to accelerate out of the siding at Leipsic after a meet with an eastbound freight.
A southbound coal train makes good time as it pounds the diamond with the NS at Leipsic, OH with relics of the past still standing guard.
I turned around on my way home as soon as I saw this guy, not often SD40-2's lead coal trains so we drove back the way we came to 153.6 and shot E255 splitting the last B&O CPL's north of Lima on ... (more)
Q517 crosses the NKP at Leipsic Jct. with a rough looking D8 in the lead.
L075 is normally a morning job that comes out of Ft. Wayne to Leipsic and back. This Sunday the local ran late afternoon. Here the job finishes up their work at the steel plant at Leipsic before h... (more)
Q501 and Q500 are meeting here at Leipsic. Q501 comes under the CPL's signals that protect the diamond with the NS Fostoria District in the middle of the siding.
A solo ES40DC leads a long manifest southward through XN interlocking where the DT&I once crossed the Toledo Sub. but now joins it here.
CN thunder leads a blue HLCX leaser southward at Leipsic on Q365.
LNL races south, back to Lima over the former B&O on trackage rights secured by the DT&I in 1966. CPL signals are plentiful on the line, but their days are surely numbered.
Z867 climbs out of Leipsic with a pair of SD40's and a 20 cylindered SD45R still wearing SP garb. The fact that the SD45 retained its 20 cylinder mover when getting rebuilt is pretty neat.
The end is near for these signals so a stop here on the chase was necessary as this will probably be the last time I bag these.
CSX Q365 heads down the siding to meet Q506 as a nice assortment of power leads the train.
CSX empty hopper train E255 splits the only pair of B&O intermediates on the Toledo Sub just south of Leipsic.
D743 rockets south out of Leipsic back towards Lima.
Here is my "throwback Thursday" with L75 belching smoke as the engineer notches up coming out of Leipsic with these two Conrail veterans. The spur here only sees bad order cars and the o... (more)
