Rebuilding the ND&W Railroad and a new Santa Fe GP20 PREX 3001
The Napoleon Defiance and Western Railroad shown at their yard in Defiance Ohio. The line is infamous for it's days as the Maumee and Western Railroad where trains were constantly falling off the tracks into to Black Swamp soil of NW Ohio. The deferred maintenance started at the end of Norfolk Western ownership and carried on through the Indiana Hi-Rail days. Pioneer Railcorp acquired the railroad in 2013 from the MAW, restoring service to 10 miles of embargoed track so that shippers have the option of interchange with Norfolk Southern at Woodburn or CSX at Defiance.
The railroad has abandoned the track east of Rt 24 to Liberty Center and the rails have been pulled. ODOT never built an overpass and after a fatality at the crossing the state of Ohio paid them to cut service east of the highway. Those funds were used to relocate the transload from Liberty Center to Napoleon. Also they are now financially able to do a full rebuild of the railyard in Defiance. These videos taken 10/24, 10/25/19 show that rebuild mid process.
Also the Pioneer Railcorp has a new owner so some motive power changes are happening to their various railroads. Here at the ND&W PREX 3001 GP20 in Santa Fe livery arrived, having last been on the Elkhart & Western Monticello line. I was lucky to catch them cross FC diamond after waiting for CSX Q172 with a BNSF/Ferromex pair. PREX 1601 is seen in my video and left the line days later, having been photographed in the CSX Garrett yard 10/27/19. About 30 PREX locomotives are currently for sale on the Sterling Rail website, including the Gettysburg 105 seen in the yard. Unknown if it will be replaced....
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