CSX B100-17 brought a cut of ballast cars down from Toledo to North Deshler and tied them down in the siding. Then they pulled around to this spot in preparation for eventually heading West towar... (more)

Q507 is pounding the diamonds at Deshler in a straight across & South move now that they don't go via Walbridge and Fostoria.

After a foggy morning, hoar frost hangs in the trees as Q231 swings south to Lima, Ohio.

Ice covers just about everything as an empty coal train heads west out of Deshler in the late evening.

As the 24+ hours of watching trains, starts to set in, Q16403, heads east, into the sunlight, behind a pair of SD70AC's, CSXT 4730 & 4740, on a nice bright Sunday morning in Deshler.

Q34002, starts around the southesast wye, and onto #2 track of the Willard Sub, off the Toledo Sub, as it passes Q16101, heading westbound on #1 track. CSXT 9020 & 8867 are just hours from finishi... (more)

BNSF 9176, a new isolated cab SD70ACe, hustles western coal eastbound on #1 track at Deshler's railfan park, behind down town buildings, as others try for there photos of this fast moving coal tra... (more)

Charging westbound on #2 track, and passing the old Deshler Tower, CSXT 8041 & 7560, hustle the freight towards Chicago, as the crew has the old school air on with the door wide open.

Empty ore train, K185, is northbound passing the Deshler reservoir, & old B&O water tank, as CSXT 592 & 4754, and 125 cars, highball north for the Toledo docks, and another load of ore.

HLCX 7156 in blue, & HLCX 8146 in red, hustle there train Q50601, north past the Deshler reservoir, and a set of B&O CPL's, as the HLCX units make a short comeback, for the summer, while they make... (more)

As the sun comes up an what will become a great day in the Corn City, CSXT Q23101, heads south, on the Toledo Sub, and across the Willard Sub as it splits the depot and tower in Deshler, as CSXT 7... (more)

In the quickly - fading light of a late fall sunset, eastbound Q388 passes a small farm as it crosses Route 65 on the west side of Deshler. Somehow, I still don't get a very good cell phone signa... (more)

Don't let the fall colors fool you, its a 25 degree morning for the crew of this ballast train . Nikon D50 70-300mm.

There's still 45 minutes to go until "official" sunrise, yet the sky has begun to lighten, and a waning crescent moon is visible as it slowly ascends. Just another day for this sentinel of the B&... (more)

Q339 comes around the southeast wye while a railfan grabs his shots, and ballast train W065 waits up on the north side of town.