The hunt for trains.

Skyler and I loaded up our Fat Bikes Friday morning and headed out West of here to see if we could view some mainline freight on the Union Pacific Shafter sub.  We waited, and waited, and waited!  Nothing.  On our way back to the truck, I spotted an Eastbound.  Skyler was convinced we could catch it in time and if the gravel road had been in better shape, we would have beat the locomotives to the crossing!  He rode SO fast attempting to catch it!  In the end we did catch up and got to see about half of the cars go through the crossing.

Waiting.

Checking out the crossing arm mechanism.

Dark signals.  :(

Racing back towards the train!  He was really moving!

We made it!  Look how flushed his cheeks are!

Lots of (presumably empty) high fructose corn syrup cars marked ADM (Archer Daniels Midland) headed back to the midwest.

The train was cruising along pretty quick, probably 45-50 mph.

Happy!

Headed back to the truck on the gravel.  He was pretty happy about spending the morning out there.