Union
Pacific Wimmer Engineering special train crossing 6th Street in Hearne,
Texas on Thursday, March 19, 2009. This train had originated in Council
Bluffs, Iowa on March 16. I've also included a sound Quicktime movie of
it. I was afraid I'd miss it since I didn't get to photograph it
at one of my usual places, Brinkley, Arkansas the day before,
because of a trip to visit my father in Texas who had hip surgery in
Bryan. Then, I read that the train would be coming through Hearne on
the 19th, so I drove the 18 miles to catch it. I guess you could say
the train actually followed me!
Rounding the curve coming into Hearne at 1:26 p.m. A freight had just gotten into a siding.
Nice older house in the background frames the 1995.
Sharp 11-car streamliner.
Click
on this link to view the Quicktime movie. WARNING-this is a large
digital movie, NOT a YouTube movie, thus the size is 46MB (Broadband recommended).
I just sat my other digital camera on a tripod and started the movie,
then took the still photos at the same time. It's quite a nice runby.
http://www.thundertrain.org/031909Hearne-1995Movie.mov (Or, http://tinyurl.com/c83byn)
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