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First word.. Weeeeee! ..

Okay.. First Crossed tracks on hwy 59 .. around 2:12 Saw a guy in a grey truck
who looked like a railfan getting ready to film some action pull aside of the
road, as I blurted out Railfan alert. My Dad looked at me.. Then I said Train
alert!, and said see there is a train he thought I was pointing at the cars on
the siding.. I said wheres the units wheres the units gotta get their numbers...
Doh .. Can't see the numbers on the sunlight glare.. Meany sunlight ...

So watched Two WSOR units back up .. moments after crossing hwy 59 crossing....

Then road to downtown Janesville.. Crossed through Five points railroad
crossing.. continueing on West court street as I peaked at the round house
counted more units.. Saw another train ... heading south on there.. Then saw
what appeared to be the original train around 2:45 after going to DQ I got a
raspberry truffle I ate.. but I had to wait till we got further from the tracks
cause my hands were shaking really bad.. from sensing the shaking in the rails..
I am like oh come on now... Then we ended up back on N. Pearl Street.. went
passed alot of areas with tracks.. Basically followed the rails from Milton to
Janesville, then zigzagged through bits of town criss crossing.

I crossed tracks at Fivepoints, On West Court Street, On Pearl Street, and on
another road...

1, 2, 2, 2, 2, tracks...
Saw 12 WSOR units possibly two of the same train I saw earlier I am sure they
were I saw the 4025 at the roundhouse for sure.. and listened to train horns on
and off for an hour as I giggled as we were sitting listening to music and my
dads car battery saver thing so happen to keep shutting the vehicle off at the
time the Trains horns were blaring lol... As my Dad looks over at me and I smile
.. and state.. I didn't do it ...

9 Railroad tracks 12 units, over 100 railroad cars,
riding it a hot van with no aircon so had the wind whipping in my face listening
to loud rock and roll music hr hr hr..

The Ride to town I did not want to take today..
Turned into a surprise railfanning outting.. and I said to my Dad...
I am telling my friends all about how you took me railfanning today, and you
didn't even know it.. He smiled and went un huh ...

.. I tried to get the numbers of the units but my eyes tend to be light
sensitive so when the sunlight is shining at certain angles I can not read the
numbers.. and it it quite a distance to try to read locomotive numbers that far
away anyhow.. no I am not carrying binocs or a telescope ... We also road
past the area where I accidently bounced myself off the train trestle.. its nice
seeing that road all completed we ran through gravel that day .. (not to far
from the Salvation army) ..

See you all later. My attempt at a railfan report.. Heard trains all day.. the
units by hearing the trains were whatever the Leslie horn was, the 4025, and
4009? or something.. I hear the other one alot never know its number.

So who was the railfan I caught site of today ...

- Dana C. L.
"DNatureofDTrain"