While going east on the BNSF across Iowa, I saw a short westbound train of intermodal containers--pulled by ten CSX engines.
While traveling on US 521 south of Lancaster, S.C., I noticed several signs warning 18 wheelers not to cross the former Southern that parallels the highway near Elgin (the first such I had seen); there is another road that parallels the highway--and, even though I grew up in the area, I was never on it.
I was able to take a picture of the Anvil Rock (a large chunk of granite that bears a resemblance to an anvil), which is about 2 1/2 miles from where I grew up. The most interesting thing about this rock is that every time it hears a rooster crow, it turns around. Several years ago, as I was going into Boston on the Lake Shore Limited, I was talking with the flagman, and he knew of the Anvil Rock and its peculiarity.
When I returned home, after detraining from #5 (6:16 late) I walked its full length as well as the full length of #6 (side by side in the station)-- the first time I have known the two trains to meet in Salt Lake City. Both trains were here for more than an hour--the UP was having trouble giving them track time?
Johnny
I saw the same westbound train with many CSX engines also (or at least a very similar train). I wondered where and why all the foreign power was going on the BNSF.
Oh, yes; I also saw, in Clifton Forge, two rather beaten up NYC gondolas. The next day, Carl Shaver told me that the NYC cars had been assigned to CSX--so they were on home rails.
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