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Pertaining to all railroading subjects, past and present, in the American Midwest, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Kansas. For questions specific to a railroad company, please seek the appropriate forum.
This past friday 5-27 on the TT headed North I saw a grey schemed CSX GP38 (didnt catch the number nor if it was a -2 although id imagine it was) it was hauling 4 flat cars the first and last were empty as it looked from aways away and the middle two were seperated long ways down the center and had a switch on each side (4 switches total 2 crossovers total) and were stood up as if i was looking to the ground at the switches as they passed. I have seen them transported before on semi or on flat car laid down but this is a first. Might this be out of Stanley yard or have they been doing anything with Stanley - I havent been over there in a while.
Those turnouts came up from the south on the Toledo Sub (B&O) side. I saw them go by the house in Perrysburg earlier in the week. I figured that they were for the re-configuring of the interlocking at Walbridge.
ToledoTerminalRy wrote:This past friday 5-27 on the TT headed North I saw a grey schemed CSX GP38 (didnt catch the number nor if it was a -2 although id imagine it was) it was hauling 4 flat cars the first and last were empty as it looked from aways away and the middle two were seperated long ways down the center and had a switch on each side (4 switches total 2 crossovers total) and were stood up as if i was looking to the ground at the switches as they passed. I have seen them transported before on semi or on flat car laid down but this is a first. Might this be out of Stanley yard or have they been doing anything with Stanley - I havent been over there in a while.
I saw those sitting in Walbridge Yard on the way home from work yesterday afternoon. I assumed they'd be used at the junction north of Walbridge as well. They've recently constructed multiple new signal towers and such there, so I figured it was a package deal. They've moved pretty quick on those signals, won't be too long now before they fall and give way to the new hooded traffic lights.
At 5:30 today CSX's C&O schemed Engine rolled by the house heading toward Walbridge with the switch MOW cars in tow (plus other freight) they look like orange (MOW) flat cars with a center beam like look car #'s are 920680, 920681, 920683 and 920684 so maybe some more switches are comming up so keep your eyes open.
