A nice surprise, totally unexpected, was UP 2001, one of the Salt Lake City Olympic units, heading an eastbound train, 7 miles west of Franklin, Texas on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 2010. I was on my way home from a family Thanksgiving reunion near Burton, Texas and was traveling east on US Highway 79 when I saw this mixed freight slowly moving to the east to the right of the highway. As I approached the front of the train, I noticed the lead unit was not up yellow, then saw it was the 2001. I drove up to the next crossing and waited to get this picture. Also included is a Canadian American Railroad boxcar LW 1097.  When I left Burton at 1 p.m. it was 82 degrees. By the time I had passed Hearne, Texas (a half hour away) it was 47 and rain.


UP 2001, 2:16 p.m. Thanksgiving 2010.


UP 2001 and 4239.


Canadian American Railroad boxcar LW 1097.

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