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Saturday afternoon my wife and I were out shopping when we crested the highway 377 overpass over the UP in Benbrook and I looked down to the east towards Davidson Yard and saw a bright red signal.  These signals are approach lit, and a quick glance to the west did not reveal a train in sight; so I hoped this meant the signal on the other side was green for a westbound leaving the yard.  I quickly turned off and drove back to the tracks on the east side of the overpass so the signal and a nice patch of yellow weed flowers were right in front of me.  As I got my camera out, the distant and distinctive sound of a K5HL proved my hopes to be correct.  I lined up my shot with the clouds and flowers, and was quickly surprised by a new CSX ES44DC on the point.

The second unit, a new FXE ES44AC, was also worth the effort of lining up a picture as he sped on west.

I checked TrainOrders later in the afternoon, and was surprised again to see that Steve Schmollinger had photographed the same two units the day before westbound at Big Sandy.  A good catch Steve!