Western Railroad Discussion > Cooling off at Mill Creek

After the excitement, and perhaps frustrations that go with the chase of a famous steam locomotive, one may find themselves needing to revert to the classic "sit and wait' scenario. I found myself in such a situation this past Saturday after chasing UP 844 for over 100 miles  of cloudy weather across Northeast Kansas (see: http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?10,4142417). I ended up moseying around the Lawrence, KS area and stumbled upon a westbound autorack train, I only had loose intentions of chasing the train west "if I shoot it again I shoot it again, if I don't, I don't" I then slowly made my way over to UP's crossing of Mill Creek east of Maple Hill, KS, noting the train I had no direct intentions of chasing was being held at Topeka for a bit of a traffic cluster. While waiting around at Mill Creek the sun popped out just in the nick of time for the westbound to make its appearance. Cooling off from a cloudy day, with a bit of warm sunshine...

1) Freshly repainted UP 5403 leads a westbound autorack train across Mill Creek. The old truss bridge is on Willard Road.
2) UP 2588 brings up the rear as DPU.

October 15th, 2016
Thanks for looking!
mg8711

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Good work and nice views Lucas.
Brian Stevens