07-02-2010, 08:53 PM
P5se Camelback Wrote:It's interesting to me that there appears to have been some switching take place in between photo opportunities ... there are fewer and fewer cars each time. It looks very much like a typical short model railroad train in those last couple of views, with merely an engine and two cars ... now there's a prototype view for all of you with shelf-style "shifting" layouts.
Yes, I did say I was chasing the local. They dropped off a covered hopper at a plastics plant in Leipsic and three coil steel cars at a processing plant in Ottawa.
The Indiana & Ohio is considered to be a regional, not a shortline. They operate through freights, unit trains, and locals as pictured.
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