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Our bus made good time over the Arbuckles, and arrived at the depot museum in Davis shortly after noon on Thursday the 21st.  We all got out to photograph and examine the depot and its contents.  A few cell phone calls established the fact the other two busses had not left Ardmore yet.

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Due to a few rain-induced slow orders and the meet at Paoli, we arrived in Ardmore a little over 20 minutes late.  As we sat on the passenger main in front of the depot for our large group to disembark, I shot this photo from the vestibule of a northbound BNSF train heading through town on the freight main.

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Early on Thursday June 21st approximately 150 members of the Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modelers Society rode three luxury sightseeing busses from the convention hotel to the old AT&SF depot in Oklahoma City.  Up on the platform I took this shot of Amtrak Train 821 while it was still tucked away in its stub end siding.

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I am sitting in our motel room in Oklahoma City Saturday morning as I type this.  So far we are having a great time at the SFRH&MS 2007 convention, and my slide presentation last night on the ATSF in Oklahoma in the 1970’s was well received.  The train/bus trip to Ardmore and return on Thursday was a lot of fun, and photos will follow in the next few days.  Wednesday on the drive up Judy and I paused at Davis so I could photograph a pair of units tied down waiting for a rock train to be loaded at the south end of town.  Suddenly the radio came alive with the news of an impending meet, so we waited a few minutes more.  The BNSF 4017 North puling a stack train showed up first and took the siding.

This now blocked our view of the mainline, so we repositioned to the south end of the siding for this shot of a loaded grain train led by a repainted SD70M.  The rear of the stack train can be seen in the distance on the left.

There were more trains coming, but now we needed to highball on to Oklahoma City.