Lucky day for trains ( Wind Turbine blade Union Pacific)
Today had to go pay my loan payment over in Pekin and was kind of worried with a car that's been overheating if it would make it or not. My brother n law came with me in case it acted up and put some antifreeze into the car. We made it but watching the temp gauge constantly was nerve wracking. Anyways while over there before paying my thing I see ditch lights down the tracks in Pekin so go to Caroline Street to wait for it. IMRR comes rolling by with switcher #31 heading north to the TZPR yard. After that just out of curiousity go to South Pekin monitoring the gauges like a hawk. I see a sitting train facing south near the bridge that crosses Manito Road. It had lights on so head down to South Pekin and waited for it. It turned out to be a Ethanol Union Pacific train. While there open the hood up so it might help cool the engiene down some. That train was a good eight minutes and got a friendly toot of the horn so we leave for h...