| UP 8668 - UP 5670 - BNSF 9252 with southbound autorack paused in the passing lane in Vancouver... and after seeing BNSF rigs out in the desolate stretches of northeastern Oregon earlier in the day, something odd is going on. You have to look no further than the trees in the background - theres leaves on them... and theyre not green (sounds like a joke, but we *used* to go from trees with green leaves to trees stripped bare (high winds with coming of fall) or the early freeze that just kills things - green to dead & brown... THEN the wind stripped them off. "Beware the four horsemen..." hey, wait a second... there were four lone BNSF units out in UP territory... guess its a good thing were on our way to services. |