Spirit of the Union Pacific Visits Loachapoka

            Thanks to the local good sources, there was plenty of advance notice that the Spirit of the Union Pacific had wandered off home rails and would lead Q602 out of New Orleans to Waycross. Initially looking like an afternoon (read: horribly backlit) run out of Montgomery, turns out that they got out at the perfect time for a northbound morning chase. I stupidly didn't take the camera bag with me to the office, so after spotters on the ground reported them leaving Montgomery the detour to the house to grab it probably cost me getting two shots. Hindsight being 50/50 as Pat Dye would say, I should have marked off the whole morning and chased it all the way from Montgomery to Auburn. Oh well, if there was one spot I had to pick to bag it in perfect fall light it would have been down by the dirt road and cotton patch at Loachapoka.

Kinda fun to be standing out in a cotton field in the office attire with a camera, and then being back at the office less than 30 minutes later. And boy did this one bring the foam out! Probably the most railfans I've seen out on the old Western of Alabama since I moved to Auburn 17 years ago.

Also, of all the commemorative units out running this is one that honestly I thought I'd never bag. Especially given that following the PSR scam sweeping the nation that foreign power has all but disappeared from the local scene. Little did I know that 4 days later another special Ace never thought I would see graced my lenses...

One final note as this caption as already drug on for far too long, there was a lot of sweating out a vehicle/dust cloud screwing. Normally you could sit on the dirt road for an hour and maybe see two cars. But this happened to be election day (perks of voting absentee!), and the Loachapoka polling place was at a church about a mile to the west. Thankfully a pickup truck cleared with about one minute to spare.

Taken in: United States / Alabama / Loachapoka (show map)

Taken on: November 3, 2020

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