Un-repeatable
Quite a bit has changed in the nine months since this photo was taken. The interlocking here at Yost (East Galesburg) has since been modernized with new signals. The train 557 and the trailing GP50 are pulling (L-CHI101) was abolished a few days ago, and was replaced. But the worst part is that both the engineer and conductor on this train are no longer working out of Galesburg. The conductor retired two months after I captured this image after working for 43 years with Santa Fe and BNSF; and because of a complete restructuring of the operating system in Galesburg, the engineer has since been relocated elsewhere. I'm never opposed to change, but I was friends with both of them and it sucks that I won't be able to go see them on a somewhat regular basis. About the only thing that hasn't changed is the paint on 557, but with BNSF experimenting with rebuilding some of their B40's who knows how long it will be before that too changes.
Un-repeatable
Quite a bit has changed in the nine months since this photo was taken. The interlocking here at Yost (East Galesburg) has since been modernized with new signals. The train 557 and the trailing GP50 are pulling (L-CHI101) was abolished a few days ago, and was replaced. But the worst part is that both the engineer and conductor on this train are no longer working out of Galesburg. The conductor retired two months after I captured this image after working for 43 years with Santa Fe and BNSF; and because of a complete restructuring of the operating system in Galesburg, the engineer has since been relocated elsewhere. I'm never opposed to change, but I was friends with both of them and it sucks that I won't be able to go see them on a somewhat regular basis. About the only thing that hasn't changed is the paint on 557, but with BNSF experimenting with rebuilding some of their B40's who knows how long it will be before that too changes.