Thanks for the photo of this facility! Forgive me but...I've heard this trains been routed a different way. It looks like the Findlay/Kenton route would be most direct to get it on the CSX Indianapolis/St. Louis route, but you're saying it's going through Fostoria. Looking at online maps, I don't see a wye at the Toledo branch to accommodate trains on this route. At the risk of sounding foolish: 1) is the Findlay/Kenton or the Fostoria/Marion route the normal one for this train, and; 2) if the former, how do they get trains onto the Findlay/Kenton line from the intermodal facility? Thanks in advance. Nice that this train will pass by where my maternal grandparents are buried (Jewett, IL, in a cemetary across the street from the old PRR/Conrail line now part of CSX) and parts of it will continue south toward Texas through the county I live in (Benton County, Arkansas) on the original KCS main line.
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Currently Q106 turns north at Ridgeway, OH and runs up the Toledo Branch through Findlay and uses the new SW quadrant connection to the former B&O at Galatea to get to North Baltimore and then after working the yard runs east on the Chicago line to Fostoria where it turns south on the former C&O down to Marion. This move becomes awkward when they get to Marion because they then have to change directions to get to the Marion intermodal facility. Q107 follows the reverse of that route running Marion-Fostoria-North Baltimore and then south on the Toledo Branch to Ridgeway and west from there. CSX has been working on putting in a Northeast quadrant connection at Ridgeway to allow these trains to run exclusively on the Toledo Branch and also avoid the reverse move in Marion but it's not in service yet. There are also plans to change these trains back to their original direct St Louis to Marion routing and add two new trains to make the North Baltimore to Marion run, perhaps as soon as later in January 2013.
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