Fostoria, Ohio — The Iron Triangle

Virtual Railfan's Fostoria cameras look out from the Fostoria Iron Triangle Railpark on the junction that gives the place its name: Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate main line crossing CSX's former Baltimore & Ohio and Chesapeake & Ohio Toledo Line routes, forming a triangle of mainline track in the middle of an Ohio town.

The operator counts over 80 daily freight trains through the triangle — intermodal, manifest and coal — which puts Fostoria in the front rank of American railfan locations.

Two cameras exist. The public one is a pan-tilt-zoom camera that sweeps the triangle from the railpark, moving when an operator is available; a fixed camera concentrating on the heart of the junction to the south is reserved for Virtual Railfan members. The host is the Fostoria Rail Preservation Society, supported by the City of Fostoria, which owns the railpark.