CSX Toledo Sub Special, 3 Disc Set

Disc 1: CSX Toledo Sub Volume 1…View coverage of this single track mainline in Southwest Ohio between Hamilton and Vandalia Ohio. This footage was shot in 2009 from early Spring to late Fall. Being a single track line with an adequate amount of traffic, the action is intense. Numerous passing sidings along the way make for interesting railroading. Locations covered include: Hamilton, New River Yard, Trent, Trenton, Middletown, W. Middletown, Carlisle, Miamisburg, Dayton, and Vandalia. The CSX Toledo Sub serves as an artery between Detroit and Cincinnati, Louisville and other points to the South. Automobiles and auto parts trains make up the majority of consists but you’ll also see grain, coal, and regular manifest trains.

Disc 2: CSX Toledo Sub Volume 2…This video covers the CSX Toledo Sub. from Tipp City, Ohio to Wapakoneta, Ohio and was shot from September 2008 to March of 2010. This busy single track line sees abundant action during daylight hours and includes automotive trains carrying both parts and vehicles, commodity trains such as ore, coal, and grain, as well as regular manifest trains. This particular area of the Toledo Sub. has a concentrated number of passing sidings to make rail-fanning this line interesting. In addition, most of these sidings are still controlled by CPLs or Color Position Light Signals. This fact alone brings many rail-fans to visit and photograph the Toledo Sub. These ancient CPLs are slowly being replaced by Modern Railroading traffic light type signals. Many of these scenes were shot in the frigid, snow blowing winter of 2009-2010. Other areas visited in this video will be Troy, Piqua, Kirkwood, Sidney Jct, Sidney, Swanders, Anna, and Botkins.

Disc 3: CSX Toledo Sub Volume 3… This installment of the CSX Toledo Sub covers the line from Cridersville Ohio to Leipsic Ohio. Other locations include historic Lima Ohio, DT&I Jct, Cairo, Columbus Grove and Ottawa. you’ll see the brown field where once stood the Lima Locomotive Works which was known first for the Shay logging locomotives and later the Super Power Locomotives. Three famous engines were built here including three that are still in operation: NKP 765, Pere Marquette 1225, and the SP Daylight 4449. Witness a temporary shoo-fly operation near Erie Jct in the south end of Lima. See brand new signal masts at Eureka Street. Observe the once famous diamond where the old B&O Cincinnati to Detroit and the Pennsylvanias Pittsburgh to Chicago mainlines crossed. See the beautifully restored Pennsy Depot near the diamond. Watch a pacing sequence of a CSX northbound freight between Columbus Grove and Ottawa. And finally visit Leipsic Jct. where the action is intense with Norfolk-Southern and CSX providing the activity for this fast developing industrial area of North West Ohio.