Well, Its Dec 29th, 2006. I think I will go ahead and give my Review of my Railfanning activites for the year of 2006.
January- January started out slow for me. In the first few days of the New Year that was 2006, I only went out 5 Times. I was comming off a virus that I caught at a friends New Years Eve party, but when I went out, there was no stopping me. On the 12th of January, my Girlfriend actually went railfanning with me. As it turned out, she was a good luck charm. Between Mitchell and Granite City Il, a distance of 4 miles, we saw a grand total of 7 trains in a little over an hour. The best part of it was that we saw a Single GP38-2, NS, working in Notch 8 with 40 loaded coil cars. Other than that, January was a quiet month of railfanning with nothing to report.
Febuary- Febuary, the month of love. Besides seening the Texas Eagle with Amtrak #'s 1 and 500 on the point of the same train, it was pretty much the same old thing. I saw my first NS SD70M-2 and I discovered the existance of Mount Vernon, IL, when Mike and I went down there to try to tour the facility. We photographed a Pure MKT and Chessie Units sitting with Israli and Australian G12’s. Also Photographed one of the 2 F69PHAC’s.
March- The month that changed everything for me. March 11th, 2006 will always be engraved in my heart. It was the day that I gained my 15 minutes of fame. On a day that I was not going to to go to Kirkwood, I was glad I did. For on that day, UP 6741 came through town and blew a piston for my camera and exploded into a fireball. That night, while thunder storms passed through the area, Channel 2 and Channel 4 aired my home video on the 5 o’clok and 10 o’clock news casts. However, the incident proved to be a double edged sword, and it cost me alot of reputation after Bryan Jones of Lousiville, KY, tried to disprove. After the video was proved to loconotes, I was promptly deleted from loconotes and all threads about the video was deleted from the archives. I think someone was jelous.