Today here in Fort Worth has been overcast, cold and rainy. I had learned the SP heritage unit was the trailing DPU on the Z-MQLC this morning, but while it is snowing less than 100 miles to the west, that was too far to drive with Christmas eve commitments. The train was due through Fort Worth around 8:30am, so Judy and I left the house early and had breakfast out before I dropped her off to finish up some Christmas shopping. I heard the train call for a route through Davidson Yard, and the answer was to pull down to the west end of Bypass #5 for a crew change. I drove to milepost 253 on the Baird Sub just west of the yard along Vickery Avenue where the old “Bomber” spur left the main line. There is a nice wide-open view here in both directions which would make it easy to photograph the train both coming and going. The temperature was 40 degrees at 8:36am when SD70Ace 8655 came by milepost 253 running wide open.
Two minutes later the rear DPU’s came by also in Run 8, and I captured the 1996 pushing hard.
It started to rain almost immediately after I took the shot, and I hopped right back in the SUV to avoid being both cold and wet. When I got back to the store Judy was just finishing up her shopping, so my timing this Christmas Eve on getting a train shot and staying in good graces was perfect!








































