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fuzzybroken-- hah. ya misunderstand. He fixes de fence. As we say in TX, he be a war-man (Say it slow, and if that doesn't work, Ed'll splain it to you). Sorry Peter, couldn't resist. Back to the real world: By the way, guys and Mookie, drove (ugh!) TX to LA last week on I10 (what a drag) but all the current tales re the UP seem to be true--train after train stuffed in sidings on the Sunset Route with no place to go. Some w/o power--clearly robbed to get some others over the road, and a lot of foreign power. 7 in a row EB in NM literally on each others markers but nothing else was really moving. Clearly they were fleeting them but it wasn't really working well. Same for Beaumont Pass, where the EB's were all stacked up on both main tracks end to end literally going nowhere, with a clear track all the way at least as far as Indio. I can't see how they're keeping their accounts happy at that rate. Word off the competition via my staff's connections is that they low-balled everything to get the business, got it, and are now paying the piper. The good news is that there were lots of signal crews out there setting up new eqpt. For those of you who go both ways (!?), walked into T5 @ LAX Sun AM to get the 11:50 DFW home and, lo and behold, they had a little exhibit and a bunch of balloons @ gate 50 so dropped by to see what was going on--got accosted by a flight attendant serving some great cake (DL 75th birthday) who allowed I should drop by the window as they had the DC3 (DL ship 41-the real thing) out and were flying it around every hour. For those of you not of that other persuasion, this is original eqpt, restored to the extent that it won the first National Trust for Historic Preservation award ever given to an airplane. Absolutely beautiful restoration--looks like it came right off the factory floor--and it flies! The FA had been out on it and told me they had the seats covered w/ plastic and you were given cloth slippers if you went on board to avoid carpet damage. Sort of like the 3985 with wings and props. Face it guys and Mookie, this is almost as good as a steam locomotive, but not quite. FYI, they are reenacting the 1st commercial DL flight with the DC3 and I think a 1926 TravelAir (another real relic) from DFW to ATL via Tyler, Shreveport, Monroe, Jackson on 6-17 and 6-18. If you can't see a vintage train those days and you're in the area, this one is definitely worth a look. For more on the tour go to www.deltamuseum.org Back to RR's. My sources tell me a certain work train crew decided they had been in the hole too long so they went ahead and took the main w/o authorization. Crunch! Don't know if true or not as I don't think NTSB is done and, besides, the RR runs on rumors. Back to the salt mines..........
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