April 20th dawned cold with what appeared to be a mostly
clear sky. There was frost everywhere. We got up before the
sun, and decided to get trackside as soon as possible, just in
case MB1 was late getting out of Madrid. We headed toward
the crossing by the farmhouse near Milepost 7. We got there
and were amazed to find a train canned just north of the cross-
ing. It looked like a “Lumberjack,” with a string of loaded pulp-
wood on the head-pin. Power was M420 205 and C425 250.
After just a few minutes, a taxi pulled up, and out popped the
relief crew. It turned out that this was actually Second AD1, a
tonnage-relieving second section of yesterday’s “Lumberjack!”
We didn’t have long. The sun was beginning to rise in the east-
ern sky, glinting off the rails and silhouetting the farm house on
21: DA2, the empty “Lumberjack” pauses at Weld to
set out empty pulpwood racks. Atlantic Great Eastern
Alco RS11 895 is in the lead.
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