Berea is one of the “big three” Northern Ohio railfanning locations. CSX and Norfolk Southern have busy double-track lines that run right alongside each other, following the coastline of Lake Erie. Here at Berea, the lines come directly alongside of each other.
With two major railroads running double track, there was plenty of action for the time that we were in Berea. I think I read somewhere that there were 50 trains a day that roll through here, and that seems about right from what we observed. There was one point where there were three trains moving past us at the same time! The longest that we had to wait between trains was about 15 minutes, but that gave us time to put our lunch together.