Deshler-Crossroads of CSX

Deshler Park is the Crossroads of the "B&O", now CSX. Located in NorthWest Ohio, the park is home to good times, and over 60 trains per day. The park is located on the SouthWest Quadrant of the Chicago to Pittsburgh east-west line and the Cincinnati to Toledo and Detroit north-south line. Our camera crews visited Deshler in May, June and October in 2009. Not only will you see action at this Ohio Hot Spot, but we'll take you on a tour of the CSX Intermodal Yard being constructed near North Baltimore Ohio. The yard will be approximately one mile wide by five miles long. CSX will place in service 5 intermodal container cranes at the yard. They are the largest type in the world spanning 8 yard tracks. A lot of the work will be moved out of Chicago to North Baltimore due to theft and security reasons. We'll also take you to the diamonds on either side of Deshler at Galetea to the east and Hamler to the west for a brief visit. You'll see numerous stack and mail trains at this busy junction, tanker trains, perishable fruit and vegetable trains, from the West Coast, coal trains and grain and of course regular manifest trains. The majority of locomotive power will be old and new CSX schemes. Other power being used will be NS, UP, SP and Santa Fe. Cover photos by Dave Oroszi Approx 80 minutes. No narration