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.
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.
The best place to watch trains in Ohio is...
(sorry for my NW bias)
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matt
by railohio
Glendale.
Great line, great signals, great trains, and a great bar right next to the tracks!
Last edited by railohio on Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.
mmmmm pie!
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by nycrick
There are a lot of good places to trainwatch in Toledo besides just the 2 listed. In fact ther's a lot in NW Ohio it just depends on what you want to see.
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Rick Kolhoff
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by ErieLackawannaC425
Glendale by far, its the closest to my home in Cincinnati, a close second is Hamilton.
-Dan Ruffner
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by ToledoTerminalRy
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.
I agree. If I could pick just one place to watch trains in Ohio, Marion would be it.
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by MC8000
Marion hands down.
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by railohio
What's the big deal with Marion? The photo opptrotunities are almost non-existant and it's constantly overun with foamers. I just don't see why it's a popular spot...
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.
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by railohio
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.