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Just a reminder, Big Boy is in Texas now, maintenance in Dallas today, then leaving tomorrow morning heading south to Hearne.  Friday will leave Hearne and head to Houston.  Southwest Railcams on Youtube has a camera at the depot in Hearne, so you can watch it pull in sometime tomorrow afternoon.  I've already seen it in person twice, so not sure if I will take time off to catch it again.  But definitely see it in person if you never have.

Schedule:

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

42 minutes ago, UTCzech III said:

Just a reminder, Big Boy is in Texas now, maintenance in Dallas today, then leaving tomorrow morning heading south to Hearne.  Friday will leave Hearne and head to Houston.  Southwest Railcams on Youtube has a camera at the depot in Hearne, so you can watch it pull in sometime tomorrow afternoon.  I've already seen it in person twice, so not sure if I will take time off to catch it again.  But definitely see it in person if you never have.

Schedule:

https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/schedule/index.htm

Quick heads up. It's staying in Hearne for a couple of weeks for maintenance and for some of the crew to travel home on break. It will leave hearne on Friday Oct.4 

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Good: lots of inside info on Big Boy

Bad:  Jay Leno

 

chances i'll still be on a conference call i really don't need to be on when it passes less than a mile by?

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Out of the call and got to a decent viewing spot just a few minutes before it came into view. 'mericuh.

 

 

 

Go to Marlin. Eye opening experience for numerous reasons. 

29 minutes ago, deter said:

Go to Marlin. Eye opening experience for numerous reasons. 

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Managed to bike over to the Amtrak station to see 4014 yesterday early right at 9 and place was already mobbed, glad I was on a bike…

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kinda neat to see all the original name plates and such up close, plus the plaque they got honoring the people who preserved the locomotive well enough for it to be refurbished is very cool.

 

We managed to get out of carpool line and over to Washington/Yale area right in time on Friday. 

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Big Boy is in Kansas now. We were going to see it in Salina but  I see that it is going to go through Grainfield, Kansas on Sunday. That is where YGIFS's in-laws live and he and I had several conversations about the desolate nature of the area and general rubelike populace. I figure we will mosey up that way on Sunday and I'll pour one out for Lobo somewhere around the tracks.

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