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Hello everyone. On Wednesday, December 17th, 2025, Cincy Railfan Productions and I headed on up to the legendary railfanning town of Deshler, Ohio. As some of you may know, Deshler is colloquially known as the "Crossroads of the B&O" as it is the junction of two of the most important mainlines on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad system; the mainline from Washington DC to Chicago and the north-south line from Cincinnati to Toledo. The east-west line, known as the Willard Subdivision heading east and the Garrett Subdivision heading west, is today part of the Chicago-to-New York corridor for CSX and the busiest mainline in all the CSX system. The north-south line, known as the Toledo Subdivision, is also an essential mainline in the CSX system albeit with varying traffic levels by day. The typical railfan could not ask for a better start to the day. Within the first hour of railfanning, we saw a trio of trains with an eastbound intermodal with a YN2 engine trailing second, a westbound grain train, and an eastbound manifest train with a YN2 leader. The wintry morning light provided a delightful canvas to film the trains, and in my humble opinion, winter mornings like this one provide the best lighting a railfan can get. Following the first three trains, we would get our first train on the Toledo Subdivision with manifest M511 to Cincinnati. Surprisingly, today's M511 had just one engine for such a long train. This manifest typically has two engines, with one serving as DPU. CSX followed up with another manifest train with a Canadian National SD70M-2 trailing second. Interesting but sad fact, CN is said to be the only Class I railroad with SD70M-2s in service as Norfolk Southern is retiring all of their locomotives of that class. The next train was a new train to replace a previous train of the same commodity. In March 2025, the Cleveland Cliffs steel company, one of the largest steel manufacturers in the Midwest, had downsized operations at its factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The Dearborn steel plant was the main contributor to the steel trains that would show up here in Deshler, B522 and B523, who would travel between Dearborn, Michigan, and Middletown, Ohio. Thanks to these changes, B522 and B523 were abolished and replaced with B505 and B506. B505 and B506 travel between the Cleveland Cliffs plant in Gary, Indiana, and Middletown, Ohio, as Gary's steel plant remains in full operation. Notably, today's M505 had a YN2 leader, the third of that paint scheme on the day. After B505 made its way south on the Toledo Subdivision, we had a parade of nothing but eastbound trains on the mainline. Intermodal train I018 kicked off the action with its typical short consist of autoracks and a few trailers into North Baltimore. I018 is almost always a rather short train as it is a light express train from Chicago to Baltimore. Next, we had our first two foreign power Class I trains of the day with eastbound intermodal I172 and eastbound intermodal I166. I172 is the eastbound BNSF intermodal that exchanges with CSX in North Baltimore, and I166 is the CPKC intermodal that does the same as I172. Perhaps the most unique aspect of Deshler is large amount of foreign power thanks to the North Baltimore intermodal facility, as BNSF, Union Pacific, and CPKC have two trains each on the Garrett Subdivision. To round out the eastbound parade of trains, manifest M568 to Walbridge Yard rolled by and the last one as an eastbound sand train with a newly rebuilt SD75IACC, a former SD75I locomotive. Recently, Canadian National has started rebuilding their fleet of SD75Is and converting them from DC traction to AC traction. The final eastbound train on the morning, shortly after a southbound coal train, was the best catch of the day with the Clinchfield Heritage Unit (CSX 1902) trailing on the hottest train on the CSX mainline, intermodal I010. Oddly enough, this is the second time I have seen the Clinchfield, and the last CSX heritage unit I saw before today was also the Clinchfield down in Marion. A pretty great way to conclude the morning. Sadly, I010 with CSX 1902 would be the last train for over two and a half hours as the next train, westbound intermodal I115, would not show up until around 2:30 pm. Hence the name of the title of this video as "A Great Morning" rather than "A Great Day" as the afternoon was absurdly quiet. 13 trains in the morning hours and yet just one train in the early afternoon. While I have seen this happen before in Deshler back from my trip here in July 2024, it is still surprising to see one of the busiest towns in terms of CSX Railroading go completely quiet for a good portion of the day. Nevertheless, Cincy Railfan Productions made the most of our time here in Deshler and we hope to return to the Crossroads the B&O in the new year. As always, thanks for watching. I hope you enjoy this video, and more importantly, I hope you all have Merry Christmas! -N&W475.