Long Day in Deshler (7-5-08)

[Y@]

Spent a longer than normal day in Deshler last Saturday. Lots of action, and a few nice surprises.

1. NB/WB Q50005
CSX 8763, CSX 7729. 86 cars.

2. NB/EB Q2##04
CSX 7623, CSX 7326. 67 cars.

3. WB/SB Q23105
CSX 5238, GCFX 3106. 70 cars.

4. WB Q38905
CSX 7772, CSX 5449. 54 cars.

5. WB Q11305
CSX 666, CSX 7848. 73 cars. (long count)

6. WB L15904
CSX 5104, CSX 7602. 68 cars. (long count)

7. WB G73905
CSX 5385. 50 cars.

8. EB/NB Q32404
CSX 8424, CSX 7860. 89 cars.

9. EB Q39003
UP 3933, UP 9583, UP 4287. 78 cars.

10. WB G88905
CSX 5118. 57 cars.

11. WB Q38705
CSX 7586. 86 cars. (he struggled through town... ended up adding one of Defiance's local units until he could get another helper in Garrett. The Defiance unit went back on 508 that night)

12. EB/SB Q50105
CSX 8041, CSX , CSX 675 (D-I-T). 56 cars. (Added dead SD60I 8778 at South Deshler, unit had been dead there for 6 days after last Sundays 501 left him there.)

13. WB/SB Q33905
CSX 9016. 73 cars. (another one-unit struggler, had a block of 20 loaded coke cars, not to mention the usual loaded sulfer/ammonia tanks.)

14. WB/SB Q50705
CSX 8765, CSX 7721, CEFX 3148. 87 cars.

15. EB Q11005
CSX 4752, CSX 5356, CSX 4556. 114 cars. (long count)

16. WB Q13505
CSX 4734, CSX 4702. 131 cars. (long count)

17. WB Q38305
CSX 201, CSX 7538. 63 cars.

18. WB Q38905
CSX 5304, CSX 8714. 78 cars.

19. NB Q50605
CSX ####, CSX 5107. 67 cars.

20. NB Q54205
CSX 676, CSX 7793. 32 cars.

21. WB/SB Q37505
CSX 4832, CSX 8037, CSX 8105. 76 cars. (8105 was in YN1 paint, and the old FLS paint was coming through pretty good)

22. NB/EB Q34005
Missed.

23. NB/EB Q27105
CSX 4788, CSX 310. 143 cars. (all loaded racks. crew died in North Baltimore)

24. EB Q15605
CSX 425, CSX 95. 76 cars. (long count)

25. EB Q38805
CSX 7683, CSX 8768. 71 cars.

26. EB U99405
BNSF 6187, BNSF 6087. 130 cars.

On the way back, saw two more eastbounds. One had a pair of BNSF SD40-2's and an NS C40-9W.

[Stitch]

WOW all I can say.....

[sd70accsxt700]

Not to offend anyone here, but you guys all complain about gas prices, and how you see very few trains at home. Dont go out for a few weeks (mabey skip going out to eat) and save up your money. Deshler from Detroit is only a few hours drive, only about 80 to 90 miles, or round trip of about 160 to 180, (may be a little closer, mabey 65 miles, I didnt google it, just a rough gess from the head). Now if your car gets at least 20 on the hwy., thats only about $32 for gas in a trip, even better if you get 25 mpg, at only about $28. Also gas is cheeper down here, so dont fill up before you go, and you can save a few dollars down here. Plus there are other places just as close or closer. Vickers from Plymouth is only about 50 miles. Thats only 100 miles round trip, and only about $20, and you can still see about 30+ or so in the day light. Plus all of these places can easly have over 80 trains in a 24 hour period if you want to stay that long. plus the longer you stay, the cheeper the gas becomes vs. number of trains.

[Rick M]

Nice as usual Y@, I would love to have seen Q39003. It's looking more and more like I won't be Deshler bound until mid August.

[Scooterb]

I bet 99% of the time Q390 has UP power

[PSK at CH45.2]

All that time at the diamond Y@ and no K185??? I don't think I've ever been to Deshler and not seen that train...

[Y@]

forgot to mention a funny story behind Q32404 and K18505...

so Q32404 starts hauling major buttox once they clear north deshler, but the crew dies on the law in the haskins siding. K18505 is getting ready to transfer from a dock crew to a road crew at west stanley, when they're informed that Q32404 is fouling the main at haskins because they hit a cat and went into emergency thinking it was a small child (WTF?) before the crew expired. K185 cannot leave until this is fixed, but with no crews availiable, what do you do? well, have Q50605 take care of it! Q506 took the last car OFF of 324, and went into stanley with that car 2nd behind the lead unit, and in front of the trailing unit. the, you would think 185 is set right? wrong. they still have 542, 324, and 508 staring them in the face. they didnt leave till well after dark

[sd70accsxt700]

Where is West Stanley? K185 is Middleton to Toledo Docks. And what is a dock crew. Train runs with a Cincy to Lima and Lima to Toledo. South works in reverse.

[Y@]

West Stanley=South Stanley

they were calling as a dock crew... i wasn't sure why, but they said they were ready to transfer from a dock crew to a road crew.

lately i've been noticing that sometimes they don't run as 185 both ways. once about 2 weeks ago they were calling out of Middletown at 3:00 a.m. as K186, saw them in deshler with empty K185 cars. he ended up meeting 185 in haskins that day at about noon. but for the most part, it's been K185 back and forth

[sd70accsxt700]

Ok where is South Stanley? You have East Broadway, Stanley Tower three signals, Tracey Rd., Bates, and Perrysburgh.

[Y@]

it shows up on ATCS as west stanley, they called themselves south stanley. thats all i know about where they said they were

[J T]

I bet you would have seen more if you had gone to Butler.

[sd70accsxt700]

Well next time Im down I will have to look at the ATCS, and find out what it really is.