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Thursday the 23rd before work I was fortunate enough to get a few pictures, including my first personal sighting of the FWWR 2017 at Davidson Yard.  First up however was this northbound BNSF Temple to Alliance train with two GEVO’s on the point passing the siding at Birds on the final approach to Tower 55.

I had called Hodge Yard to check, and been told the 2017 had not been delivered yet by the UP.  I drove by Davidson Yard on the way to work and immediately spotted this SOO SD60 basking in the sun.

I did not see the 2017 and was about to head on when I saw it trailing a UP engine consist leaving the yard with a transfer run to Ney Yard.  It stopped right across from the bend in Rogers Road, so I was able to get this rear view first.

I moved a few feet further for this full side view before the train headed on east.

If my information is correct, the frame number will be 7861-31 and this engine will have started out as the SP 8440 before rebuilding as an SD40R and renumbering to the SP 7363 before becoming an NRE lease unit of that same number.  I had been told and reported this engine would be named the “Tim Curry”, but in reality when the painting is done it will be named the “Kid Curry” after the infamous outlaw who rode with “Butch Cassidy” and the “Sundance Kid”, the designated names for the FWWR 2015 and 2016.