Fostoria, Ohio is a railroad town in every sense of the word.  Over 100 trains a day come through town on the CSX or Norfolk Southern lines, round the clock.  Whether you like to see trains or you're looking for a place to bring your grandkid for the day, Fostoria will fill your need!  Here are a few trackside pictures from my visit there on July 27, 2002.

Here's a CSX train heading east hauling double-stacked containers.

Not five minutes later, from the opposite direction, came a mirror image of the eastbound train we just saw!

  Double-stacks and piggy-backs, oh my!

I realize there are fans and then there are fanatics, but I couldn't believe it when one of the people at trackside was able to identify this Soo line locomotive's owner solely by hearing the diesel's horn when it was still over the horizon!

(I'm lucky to identify a first generation from a third generation diesel, let alone who has what sounding horn!)

Sometimes the rail traffic gets really busy and noisy, especially if you're standing at trackside in the depot!  Here a CSX train of gondolas loaded with coal pass by a train of auto rack cars carrying new vehicles.

One weird train came through part way through the afternoon--a CSC engine, a Westinghouse articulated flat car with a very heavy piece of equipment on it and a Westinghouse caboose.  Hmmm  Sounds like something for a nuclear plant to me!

And a few minutes later, a Norfolk Southern train came down the same track at a pretty good clip...

I have more pictures from Fostoria, but I haven't finished that roll of film yet.  When I finish the roll and have it developed, I'll post those pictures here, too.