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Let's try a poll
- 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.
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Glendale by far, its the closest to my home in Cincinnati, a close second is Hamilton.
-Dan Ruffner
-Dan Ruffner
My Vote:
Stanley/Walbridge
You can almost always see something moving in the yard(s) here. CSX, usually x-CR, some foreign power, but rarely NS. Second i'd say Vickers by far. I live real close to there, and work in Fostoria (now, yay!) so I visit Fostoria quite frequently, and usually I dont find it very exciting, although I do have to say when Fostoria rocks its rocks.
Ryan
Stanley/Walbridge
You can almost always see something moving in the yard(s) here. CSX, usually x-CR, some foreign power, but rarely NS. Second i'd say Vickers by far. I live real close to there, and work in Fostoria (now, yay!) so I visit Fostoria quite frequently, and usually I dont find it very exciting, although I do have to say when Fostoria rocks its rocks.
Ryan
I agree. If I could pick just one place to watch trains in Ohio, Marion would be it.
Vickers is often seen as unfavorable for the same reasons as Marion, not much else around other than the trains. That's enough for me, however, which is why I voted Fostoria.
Fostoria is much worse than Vickers. I never see anyone around Vickers anymore; most are too afraid of being arrested, I'd wager. First nice weekend in Fostoria though and there were probably 30 railfan cars floating around town. You couldn't get anywhere in town without running into another railfan. The utility parking lot at Columbus Ave. would be empty until something came east off one of the connectors and a half dozen cars would zip in there, an army of railfans would jump out, shoot some photos, and leave. It seemed there was always a crowd at the NS/C&O diamond, Poplar Street, and the Amtrak station. I spent most of my time running between Bascom and Ilers to catch most of the action and skipping anything that didn't come east of town.
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