Scooters Fostoria 1-14-06 The full report

[Scooterb]

Ok THE CAMERA ROCKS I like it alot. Makes Fostoria a whole different place to railfan now.
After slipping and sliding to Fostoria we arrive at sunup for our first train of the day.
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Q1?? 8:08 am

E 9?? makes an appearance at 8:20 am I will check the zoom on the camera here shot from Poplar street

Now for one a little closer same train

Q245 at 8:35am

Q276 at 9:00 am NS diamonds

We head down Columbus street to get Q375
taken throough the window of the truck

We get Q276 at Columbus strret again.

NS 218 the next train at 9:15am

Q394 at 9:28 has the lashup of the day



Q160 has what Patrick was looking for last weekend as the 2nd unit


Nate admires it as it goes by.
Q231 @ 10:00 am comes off the NW transfer

And a closer shot

Q210 gets to come into town after waiting for 2 hours.
Hitting the NS diamonds

We like this one so much wwe chase him nortyh of town


Back to town for Q159 10:35

G688 tries sneaking around the SW transfer so a quick shot of him

Back to Poplar street for N802

I think this next one is Q100 westbound?
we head west of town to see if we can get a side by side but we are a block to far east.

2 UP poweres NS trains are next




The old camera wouldnt have got that shot
NS 234 gets the progression shot as he gets closer



Q389

Q388

K352


Q110 12:12 pm


NS L70

Q634 heads to Willard


At East Fostoria

H795 beats us back to town so ewe salvage these shots

NS send another train out


WE see H795 turning his train in this next sequence



A shot Q200

NS 146

Q151 plays tag with the clouds

Q378 comes at us as Q151 heads to Toledo

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures/9197/thumbnails/3025%20Q378%20316PM11406%202.jpg
In your face

NS 303 from the wall at Amtrak parking lot


Q397 At East Fostoria

Q393


D006 short ballast train

NS 261 suprises us so not the shot that I wanted

17M ?


Get Q340 west of town as the sun goes down

Q393 again


Cant complain about the camera or the day as we got some snow shots cloud shots and some sun shots.
Hopefully next week I can get out again Thanks for looking.

[~Z~]

Can't say enough how much i like this series... got me jealous of being down there. I see you like the zoom? Changes things around a lot when taking pictures..have to think more about what's down the track more, and the sun angle since you care more about if the front is lit rather than the sides.. Great work, glad you guys had fun.

[patrick]

I have to agree with zack totally...... I love this report and you now have zack and i speaking of a possible one day trip to there soon rather than later

[Coffee2Go]

Excellent shots! Fostoria never fails to entertain the railfan. Lots of action if you know where the next train is running. A scanner really aids in that respect. I like the angles you've caught the engines at, using the sun for illumination. More snow there than what we got east here in Cleveland.

[Scooterb]

Due to a posting error I transfered these from a peviouse post and am deleating the other one

Aleks

Your definitly getting the hang of it. Nice telephoto shots.
By the way where did all the snow come from.
I thought we were the cold white north.
If you checked my trip report from Saturday and the one I'm going to post from today there hasn't been any of that white stuff here.

patrick

Notice how the snow plow on that last loco 8837 is cut different than most locos. its for clearance in the northeat corridor

Scooterb

How do you notice that stuff Patrick? the snow plow.
Thanks Aleks very impressed withe the zoom on this camera

[SousaKerry]

What the? that 5248 unit you have listed as a csx engine since when did csx start getting units painted like that??????


oh by the way nice grab on the seaboard unit Can't believe one actually escaped the brilliant future repaint


Sousa

[Scooterb]

Those are primered CSX units. I dont know if they have started painting any of them yet or not. I have heard they have one like that with CSX in blue on the nose.