Glamorous
I fully did not expect to get out of the house this morning. I heard about the wild M335 out of Memphis last night, though I had also heard it was coming through pretty early. I am far from a morning person, so that didn't bode well. I decided to set an alarm and see if anyone had spotted it in the morning - if not, back to bed!
Clearly, I did not go back to bed. It had been recently sighted when I woke up, so despite how much I wanted more sleep, it was time to get up and go. I hurried up to Leverett, saw them sitting there, and they got moving bloody quick. It was a race from the moment I saw the IC quartet. But I won!
At Leverett, IC1010 leads our four-pack of all-black Illinois Central SD70s. 1010/1036/1007/1026 made up the consist on CN M335 this morning, and boy was that a wild thing to see. Every time I've heard of an IC quartet coming through it's been while I'm overseas or stuck at a busy work day - for once, it worked out my way.
Nice morning gold light illuminated the twin grain elevators of Leverett, and did a fine job of exposing the dirt and grime on these well-worn 29 and 25 year old EMDs. They're not the oldest in the fleet by any measure, but they do work hard. It's sort of incredible to see them all still in IC black.
All this is to say: it was a good day.
Glamorous
I fully did not expect to get out of the house this morning. I heard about the wild M335 out of Memphis last night, though I had also heard it was coming through pretty early. I am far from a morning person, so that didn't bode well. I decided to set an alarm and see if anyone had spotted it in the morning - if not, back to bed!
Clearly, I did not go back to bed. It had been recently sighted when I woke up, so despite how much I wanted more sleep, it was time to get up and go. I hurried up to Leverett, saw them sitting there, and they got moving bloody quick. It was a race from the moment I saw the IC quartet. But I won!
At Leverett, IC1010 leads our four-pack of all-black Illinois Central SD70s. 1010/1036/1007/1026 made up the consist on CN M335 this morning, and boy was that a wild thing to see. Every time I've heard of an IC quartet coming through it's been while I'm overseas or stuck at a busy work day - for once, it worked out my way.
Nice morning gold light illuminated the twin grain elevators of Leverett, and did a fine job of exposing the dirt and grime on these well-worn 29 and 25 year old EMDs. They're not the oldest in the fleet by any measure, but they do work hard. It's sort of incredible to see them all still in IC black.
All this is to say: it was a good day.