bnsf trains 6

Hello again, Just got your note in my guest book and the honor was mine to come back to take another look at your albums once more. Years ago when I was in college, a class in forestry surveying, we had set up on the mainline track running in/out of Salem, Oregon. Hearing what we thought was a click-clack noise, never thought in the world that it was a train, we were looking around to figure out the noise and turned the surveying gun in the northerly direction, then saw this train coming down the tracks at a fairly good clip two miles away. There were 14 of us on the track and it took a good half an hour, because we were new at surveying to set up, but only mili-seconds to take all our equipment off so we wouldn't be flattened by the train highballing into town. The engineering looked rather dissatisfied with the whole ordeal when he went sailing by. Don't think I'll ever forget that experience. Thanks for the look within this album. How is it that you have access to so many pictures anyway? Come back for a visit anytime. Ron, from a very rainy Oregon coast.

said rboise 2005.04.04 at 09:49:26 PDT