Suddenly, the flashers started going. Yes! Soon AGE RS11 895
came into view and stepped across the crossing. The crew had
to set out a couple of empty pulpwood flats on the team track,
which was south of the crossing in the pitch black. We had just
a minute to get set up and rip off a couple of bulbs on the grain
store and on the nose of the 895 (21). A quick word with the
crew revealed that they would make it into Madrid unopposed,
since MB1 (Madrid-Bethel), usually a night train, was set back
eight hours. That would put him through Weld at 3 a.m. We
weren’t sticking around for that. It wasn’t long before DA2
thundered out of town. It appeared that day one had come to
an end. We crawled back to the motel and crashed…hard.
20
20: The 500 couples onto an empty CP Rail boxcar
spotted on the grain shed siding.
Journey to Allagash - 4
MRH-Feb 2013
