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| Marty Bernard posted 2. B&O Deshler, OH Depot looking north, Toledo-Chicago Divison in foreground October 17, 1964. Bill Howes photo [A comment indicates that CSX tore down in 2022.] |
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| Marty Bernard posted CSX Deshler, OH Tower, Karl Miller photo circa 1990. 𝗜𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗖𝗮𝗺 𝗮𝘁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTW4EkdMEGM |
Darren Reynolds posted seven photos with the comment: "B&Os Deshler (DR) tower, Ohio."
David Andrew Wieting: DR controlled the north south mainline, as CTC territory, whereas the Akron Division mainline was still controlled by dispatchers in Akron, through the towers. The Toledo to Cincy mainline was and remains very busy, and it was used as a way to eliminate much of the St Louis Line, much as in the same way CR used the Fort Wayne Line to downgrade the Panhandle mainline between Columbus and Pittsburgh.
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| 1 DR tower with none of the windows blocked over... |
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| 2 DR tower was a tower in its earlier years. B&O switch it to dispatcher's office.. not sure when.. David Vinsen: The CTC machine dated from 1931 according to a caption in 'Rails across the Heartland'. |
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| 3 Inside of dispatcher's office |
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| 7 All images from North American interlocking States A to Z and Canada Randall Racine: 97 The year I started on the railroad and worked on the double track capacity project before the Conrail merge. I started just west of here in Hamler. |
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| Michael Schwiebert posted A track chart before it got its tower Richard Fiedler shared |
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| Center for Railroad Photography & Art posted We missed #InternationalCatDay on Tuesday, so here's a fine Chessie System action view by John Bjorklund at Deshler, Ohio, where B&O GP40-2 4361 leads a southbound freight on September 15, 1979. The classic signals are still in use today, and no doubt there will be plenty of railfans visiting Deshler before and after Summerail this Saturday, August 12, in nearby Marion. (Bjorklund-16-11-12) Mark Ottesen: I still see the former B&O position light signals when I watch the Deshler cameras on Virtual Railfan. It is amazing CSX hasn't replaced them. Thomas M Dupee: Mark Ottesen The CPLs on this route were rebuilt and some were replaced in 1991 along with track circuitry being upgraded to electricode (digital signal coding transmitted through the rail, eliminating lineside poles). At this time, CSX was still maintaining signal systems relative to the historic route. This was last time B&O legacy CPLs were used for a major project. Soon, CSX would decide to employ C&O style Color-Light signals throughout former Chessie System territory whenever signal system re-design or replacement was warranted, resulting in a mish-mash of signals encountered in former B&O territory. e.g. signal 120 east of Auburn, Indiana. Later, CSX would decide to standardize on Color-Light signals using Seaboard aspect logic, which differs from C&O aspect logic. As a locomotive engineer, you dare not confuse the two. It could prove fatal! |
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| John Rutter posted West Deshler (2). Got a different shot of it today. Perfect weather! Deshler, Ohio. 5-30-2016. John Rutter I forgot to note, the train in the pic is going in reverse! It was a nearly two mile long freight that turned south into a siding but didn't fit, Two north bound trains were already on the main and this one had to back up about three miles to clear. [This became the banner picture for a posting about the problems of 2-mile trains.] |
Update: Darren Reynold posted two photos with the comment: "B&O. "DR tower" Deshler, OH. Top photo: Dan Maners 2001 Bottom: Charlie Whipp. 1998 [1988]"
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| Mark Hinsdale posted
A "Friday Flashback"...
...to July, 1987 in Deshler OH. A northbound intermodal train, behind what was then quite unusual Canadian Pacific power, heads north on the Cincinnati to Toledo line, crossing the east-west Akron-Chicago main line in front of the depot. My memory for the particulars of this event 30 years ago is not clear, and I do not recall whether this was some kind of detour or reroute, a one time move, or something else. I do remember that it was a notable event, and several others had descended upon Deshler that morning to record the train's passing. Photo by Mark Hinsdale
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| Screenshot (beginning of Deshler segment) |
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| Deshler Crossroads Park updated |
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| Mark Egebrecht posted David S. Patch South Deshler, Ohio |
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| Matt Kohnen posted This was from 04/08/2024 during the solar eclipse here in NW Ohio. Sun was about halfway covered when the CSX LA dispatcher lined up an empty ethanol into the west siding just south of Deshler, OH. The train would eventually go around the SW connection in Deshler to head to Chicago, hence why a "Medium Approach Slow" indication is showing. Steve McMullen: the one high mast indication I haven't got in a pic yet!! Robert Jordan: Tom Bell switch is aligned for siding. Not an expert but what I saw on these signals they do not have a diverging but the slow seems to imply that. Bill Hudran: Robert Jordan the signal indicates that the train is lined for the diverging route. The Medium Approach Slow with the Medium meaning Medium speed through turnouts, crossovers, sidings and power operated switched. The Approach Slow portion means proceed approaching next signal not exceeding Slow speed. https://signals.jovet.net/rules/CSX%20Signal%20Rules.pdf |
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| Carl Venzke posted September 22, 1952. Station platform at Deshler, Ohio |
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| Carl Venzke posted Baltimore & Ohio trains meet at Deshler, Ohio, on September 23, 1952. George Derenburger posted, same comment as above [Some comments indicate this is looking West and there was a freight house in the southwest quadrant that now has the railfan park.] Kevin McCombs shared From another Facebook group |
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| Jonathan Konopka posted 1977 - B&O 3776 leads a westbound train through Deshler, OH. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund, collection of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. Darren Reynolds shared [Was the building on the right a freight house? Update: Yes] |
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Flickr photo of a CSX eastbound
Flickr photo of a CSX eastbound
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| MP Rail Photography posted K459 passes the depot in Deshler, Ohio. With the depots days numbered, I thought I should get out and shoot it while I can. February 18, 2022 |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted Good ol' Deshler A pair of elephant style UP engines run west on the Willard Subdivision as they cross the interlocking over the Toledo Subdivision at Deshler. The old B&O depot still remains after reports of it to be torn down... the usual business of things. DJI Mavic Pro - 3/13/21 - Deshler, OH [And a nice view of the grain elevator.] |
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| Roger Robinson posted B&O tower Deshler Ohio ( Crossroads of the B&O) |
So CSX left the tower standing.
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| Brian Caswell Train Photography posted Westbound Ethanol train through Deshler Ohio led by a former KCS unit (now CPKC) sandwiched between two BNSF units / April 2024 |
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| MP Rail Photography posted Shortly after the diamond was replaced, CSX manifest M367 creeps through Deshler on its way westbound on the Willard Subdivision. May 21, 2024 Deshler, Ohio Power: CSX 5233 - ES40DC CSX 5228 - ES40DC MP Rail Photography shared |
Troy Strane posted two photos with the comment: "I've been in the scanning mood. Deshler, in the spring of 1989."
Christopher Allen Howe: What year did the signal bridge in the background come down? I didn't realize it lasted into 1989
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Drone photo of a train on the southwest connector (daily Cincinnati to Chicago)
2:02 timelapse video of the demolition of the depot
Aaron Snow: I’m surprised it didn’t have an accidental fire like every other building did on CSX in the mid 90s.
Truly excellent post with some dazzling photos!! Love it!
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