Railfan Friday | Episode:20 | Salem,Ohio

What's up railfans its railfan Friday I came all the way to slam Ohio just for railfan Friday. I enjoyed my time in same I saw so many trains in a short amount of time. Here in same there's about 5 different grade crossings so we definitely had plenty of horn. Salem Is on the Fort Wayne line between alliance Ohio and Conway pa. It was nice to Geta special surprise with the 1800 and the 8100.
salem, Ohio
Salem is the largest city in Columbiana County, Ohio, with a small district in southern Mahoning County. At the 2020 census, the city's population was 11,915. It is the principal city of the Salem micropolitan area, which includes all of Columbiana County.
Ft Wayne line
The Fort Wayne Line and Fort Wayne Secondary is a rail line owned and operated by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), and CSX Transportation in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. The line runs from Pittsburgh, west via Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Gary, Indiana, along what was once the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pittsburgh to Chicago main line.
From downtown Pittsburgh, at the west end of the Pittsburgh Line, west to the junction with CSX's Greenwich Subdivision at Crestline, Ohio, NS owns the line. Major junctions include the Conemaugh Line in northern Pittsburgh, the Cleveland Line at Rochester, Pennsylvania, the Youngstown Line at New Brighton, Pennsylvania, the Lordstown Secondary east of Alliance, Ohio, and the Cleveland Line again at Alliance.
From Crestline west to Adams junction in Allen County, Indiana, (Fort Wayne Line) and beyond to the Gary, Indiana, neighborhood of Tolleston (Fort Wayne Secondary), the line is owned by CSX. Since 2004 this section has been leased to and operated by RailAmerica's Chicago, Fort Wayne and Eastern Railroad (CFE), with NS retaining trackage rights.
The final piece, from CSX's Porter Subdivision at Tolleston northwest to NS's Chicago Line, the former LS&MS in far northwestern Gary, Indiana, at Buffington, is owned by CSX with NS trackage rights, junctioning CSX's Barr Subdivision at Clarke Junction (also in northwestern Gary).
Amtrak's Capitol Limited operates over the line east of Alliance (OH).
The Fort Wayne Line is also home to the second biggest rail yard in America, Conway Yard.
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[@stankulesza8107]

Awesome location for lots of horns. Fort Wayne line rocks. Thanks for your good work. Its cool and unique when you put your hands up to the camera 👍

[@pcola_florida_brotha]

Great Content! Keep Pushing Doing Postive Things🤙🏽

[@millcreekrails]

I can't believe this is the first time I've come across your channel. You produce well and have a good personality on camera. I subbed right away. You had some awesome catches today, plenty of EMD power, and a good bit of manifests (my favorite). Can't wait to watch some of your earlier stuff. God Bless!

[@stockmanbooks]

Also important to note about Salem's "Broadway". On Thursday, July 31st, 1997, a malfunctioning boxcar axle caught fire miles before coming into Salem that led to a train collision there when a westbound Conrail train hit the eastbound Conrail train's boxcar which was tilted because the wheels had frozen up from the axle fire. The collision sent boxcars through the historic and iconic Penn Central railroad station, totally destroying it. The accident caused a fire and derailment of 51 cars and its locomotives. Two engines and four cars burned.

[@ColeChi2009]

That. Amazing

[@AGSRailfan]

Amazing video!!! and just Subscribed too!

[@jeffstrains]

Nice video, a lot of C6M’s.

[@LostDepot]

Fantastic video

[@FootballLegendzZ]

I live in Salem Ohio

[@trefrm919]

Down in Ohio swag like Ohio

[@Jordiebwatchingtrains]

most definitely

[@ChuyQTheTexasRailfan]

great video man!

[@emmanualedwards3177]

I heard that the sd70m-2s are back

[@ColeChi2009]

I hope you can catch the AVR train

[@RFRyan]

Weird how you can see so many ACC’s in one day. The last one I saw was on National Train Day 2022, if I remember correctly.

[@Jordiebwatchingtrains]

I agree I feel like I see so much GE now a days

[@RFRyan]

It’s funny, EMD used to be the lead manufacturer of diesel locomotives, now all they do is rebuild old locomotives

[@notarotomwithhair5637]

I mean they kinda don’t exist anymore

[@marksimpson5199]

you never know what your going to see

[@ColeChi2009]

I hop that avr train again

[@Richtshn06]

Quit putting your hand up to the camera after every cut. It was cool the first time maybe the second time but now it's just super super annoying. Good video besides that fr

[@tomalcock620]

Great catches, man!! I railfan in that same area...

[@Jordiebwatchingtrains]

Thank you, I like that section of the ft wayne line.