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Last Saturday afternoon after catching the FWWR pipe train at Eighth Avenue I picked up friend Danny Sisson to railfan for thirty minutes or so before I needed to stop by the office.  We drove over to Broadway Street to see what might be waiting nearby to cross Tower 55, and ran into UP signal foreman Jim DeNike for the first time since the UP 844 chase a week earlier.  Jim had his PPE on and was in the company truck, and we visited for a few minutes as a set of power from a rock train turned at the tower and an eastbound mainfest pounded over the diamonds.  Next up a short BNSF grain train led by a NS GE and an Oakway EMD combo accelerated past us on its way towards Temple.

A few minutes later just as I was needing to leave to drop Danny off and head for the office a northbound UP empty coal train left the Ney bypass heading for the Choctaw Sub.

That wrapped up the weekend before a short work week followed by a trip to Sweetwater to visit my father from Thursday the 27th through Sunday the 30th.