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I checked out several locations east of downtown Fort Worth, but nothing looked remotely appealing until I reached the Tierney Road crossing just east of the crossovers at CP T241, known as POLY.  No great beauty to be found here either, but the foreground was open, and the background not too cluttered either.  I had called John Briggs earlier, and after he arrived we cleared trash out of the scene as 9:00am passed with radio traffic indicating the special was departing on time.  The train was turned 180 degrees at Tower 55 in record time, and at 9:20 we could hear the distictive K5LLA on the MP 1982 as the headlight appeared around the curve at track speed.  Wishing the sun had been out, at least I was able to get the whole train in one shot as it rapidly approached.

A quick pan of the scene netted me this shot of the two clean units.  The MP 1982 had what I think is a wireless antenna on a piece of PVC pipe sticking up from the walkway behind the engineer to relay the video from the windshield camera back to the passenger cars.

All too soon the rear end swept by with the theater car fully occupied.  What looks like a large sheet being unfolded inside the window is actually the reflection of a house across the street.

John and I agreed that at least it had not been raining before we went our separate ways; and as I headed on to the office I called Troy Minnick in Dallas to let him know the special was now headed towards his railfan group.