SCooters Fostoria 11-19-05

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SCooters Fostoria 11-19-05

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Well after watching the weather all week and seeing it is supposed to be cloudy and rainy all weekend I get home Friday evening to see its going to be sunny, Fostoria Here I come.
Well as I approach west Fostoria Q138 is sitting and talking to F tower. F tower I got no control from Jacksonville and I got trains stacked up all over. Well thats not good all signals are red will have to see what kinda day its going to be.
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Q138 sits west of Fostoria
BNSF 985
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Well after sitting around for about 10 minutes Q138 pipes up with we are on the go, so I head to east Fostoria for another shot of him
BNSF 985
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Q634 pulls out on the B&O to do some switching
CSX 6452
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8:40 Q160 west of town
CSX 9040
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Try to get into position for NS 15E and Q390 blows by so I turn and start chasing Q390 finally catch up way east of town.
UP 4402 9:01 am
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Well I miss 10E and I think Q272 while I am off chasing Q390 I start heading back to town and get Q216 at east Fostoria.
CSX 8555 9:07 am
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K839 right on his heals 9:19 am
CSX 7502
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Q634 follows him east at 9:22 am
CSX 6452
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Q387 9:23 blocked by Q634
U624 missed also at this time
Q222 also comes done at this time and wyes its train

9:44 K598
CSX 8732
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9:54 Q375
HLCX 6075
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10:06 Q386
CSX 8239
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10:08 Q159 blocked by Q386
10:15 NS 923
UP 4177
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10:15 NS234
NS 6670
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Well as I try to position myself for the next shot I get stuck on the wrong side of the tracks for G388
10:24 G388
HLCX 6228
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10:28 Q369
CSX 8446
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10:29 Q149 rolls by

10:40 Q231
CSX 7659
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11:10 Q164
CSX 4744
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11:30 Q210
FURX 3032
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A fallen flag is the second unit
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Q222 leaves at the same time Q210 so I mis this one also

11:50 NS 218 and NS 307
NS 9696
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NS 7133
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TRONA unit HLCX
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12:05 N804
CSX 119
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12:22 Q110
CSX 9004
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12:30 NS 262
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12;40 Q3??
UP 5463
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12:45 U839
UP 7344
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12:50 L70

1:25 Q296
CSX 8103
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2:30 Q388

2:35 H795 comes down

2:40 Q242
CSX 7848
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3:00 Q378
CSX 8640
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3:50 Q391
CSX 5948
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3:55 N926
CSX 462
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4:05 NS 17K looking fresh from its rebuild and the paint shop
NS 5813
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It also has this wrecked rack on it
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4:15 CSX coal eastbound turns towards Columbus
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4:25 NS 306
NS
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5:11 S509
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5:25 Q340

Again thanks for looking
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Sweet shots Scott. The NS manifest that is passing 218 at Pelton is NS 307

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Thanks Luke I just edited it

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really liked the morning shots, tasty light. Enjoyed the variety of angles and locations throughout town, excellent work. Bet that truck got a workout :)
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the shots by the station were prettywell shadowed so I moved around quite a bit.
Story about the truck I got to take it in for some brake work so I was pretty concerned about it Saturday.
Got to use the Explorer Sunday :D Comfort ride
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Scooterb wrote:the shot by the station were prettywell shadowed so I moved around quite a bit.
Story about the truck I got to take it in for some brake work so I was pretty concerned about it Saturday.
Got to use the Explorer Sunday :D Comfort ride
i can imagine that the sun would be pretty low this time of year, and lots of trees and wires around the station area. Rural areas are definately better for this time of year...hard to do here around GR to find nice wide clear areas near the tracks to allow the sun in.
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