3/27/13. WB LIFW through Van Wert at 11:26AM. In the lead was CFE 3316/IORY 4034 with 57 cars. Very heavy on grain cars: CSYX, AEX, BNGX, BNSF, FMLX, CGLX and NOKL among others, 2 loaded steel flats, 6-8 box cars, 2-3 tank cars. That G&W orange is looking weathered already on the CFE 3316. Looks like the mechanical issues have did some of it on the side when it was headed WB. Good to see it though.
3/26/13. EB grain train around 3PM had 2 CSX engines and the CFE 3316 on it. Had CSX unit grain train in tow.
Thanks for the headups on the LIFW with CFE 3316 leading avanwerty!
3/26/13. I'm guessing around 9:45AM the LIVW was in town with CFE 3886 and brought in 4 covered hoppers. Took 1 car out to CSP and brought back 4 from there. Left town with 3886 and 5 cars EB back to Lima. May have worked the VW Terminal.
At last check there were 11 covered hoppers at the VW Terminal for soda ash transload and 6 tank cars for the bean oil.
They are making some progress on the VW supersite work. Have started the bridge grading and footing work that I can see. Some good photos on the fwarailfan.net site in the forums/message section. Also, they were working at US 127 this morning along side of the highway. Hopefully, this will all pay off for the region someday. Got to have it in place to have a chance.
PW