SO Saturday I went down early to Deshler, it was about an hour away from the hotel in what appeared to be the middle of nowhere.
Deshler also has a railfan park, with covered seating, some limited but clean toilet facilities, and a reasonable amount of parking.
The really good thing to see was the 10or so young people aged from late teens to late 20s that were there enjoying the trains.
I arrived at 7:30 just in time to see a train, it was then almost constant action, with one train after another passing by until about 11.
The trains going round the connectors do take a long time to pass.
Deshler is where the east west CSX line that passed through Fostoria, continues west bound and is crossed by another CSX North/South line from Toledo to Lima. There are 3 connectors with only the North to East without one.
This is on the North south line heading North, but too the connector to head west bound.
Here it is starting to round the curve
On the very end was tagged this coach.
An east bound container train
This one then came round the corner running from East to South.
Next came an eastbound ethanol train with Canadian Pacific powerr on the front
The second loco is CSX and the third is Norfolk Southern, this was then being chased by another container train.
While all this was going on, a southbound autorack train was waiting patiently on the north side of the crossing for all this traffic to pass.
Eventually after about 45 minutes it got the road to proceed
Next was a container train running west to south
IN the meantime another container train ran East to west then this came in running east to south.
Not only did this train have old locos, it also had an old box car.
After this things quietened down a bit I went for a walk around the town, it isn't very big. I did come across this antiques store.
Richard