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After lunch in College Station on Sunday the 18th, Judy and I drove north through Bryan on the way back to Highway 6.  On the old SP main south of Bush Junction in Bryan we came across the tail end of a northbound empty rock train, and after passing a long string of Georgetown cars we found the UP 7576 alone on the point.

Neither the signals or the radio indicated a southbound train anywhere close, so we drove on towards Hearne where we made our next and last viable catch for the day.  We arrived at the diamond at the north end of Hearne just as the UP 5167 South on the ex-SP Ennis Sub was getting permission to pass the red signal at CP HL120 and pass over the ex-MP to Palestine, now the UP’s Hearne Sub.

As the train headed on down towards the yard office we got back on Highway 6 where we soon lost the sun behind a heavy cloud bank.  I stopped for a loaded coal train just south of Riesel, but the light was long gone and I did not get any usable results.  From there we drove on home with no more stops and got ready to go back to work on Monday.