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 #170302  by MR77100
 
Findlay, OH is where the NYC Toledo Sub (now CSX), crossed the NS Lima District. How busy is the junction? Also, there was a piece of track that connects up with the CSX line that runs to Cooper's Tire plant. The line is largely sidewalk-running, and could it be the remains of the Findlay Fort Wayne & Western interurban?

 #170838  by railohio
 
Findlay currently sees about a dozen trains a day on both lines. The Norfolk Southern Lima District has a daily turn from Blair Yard in Fostoria as well as occasional stone trains from the quarry on the west side of town. The CSX Toledo Branch Subdivision, formerly the New York Central's "Western Branch," currently has eight to ten trains a day on it, most running at night.

The line into the Cooper Plant on the southwest side of town is off the NS line. It runs north-south along Western Ave. from a junction near Sandusky Street. The turn from Fostoria serves this plant. At one time a Norfolk & Western caboose was used to protect the shove south but it now sits derelict in the yard near I-75.