Railroad trains are interesting, as they roll past where I live, Lockwood, Nev. Some are more interesting than usual.
A Union Pacific locomotive crawled past around 11:30 a.m. yesterday (Nov. 7), spewing the darkest gray smoke I have ever seen. It stopped just shy of blackness. Overheated engine, news reports said. Local TV news posted photos and video.
The smoke was so great that people in Reno thought Lockwood was burning.
Fire engines, Highway Patrol on the freeway to wave on rubberneckers.
There's a herd of 5 wild horses that comes out of the hills daily to munch in an open field, near the spot where a horse was killed on the train tracks some years ago. Not good.
The stallion walked toward a fire engine to see what was going on. Curiosity soothed, he returned to his 3 girls and 1 foal.
After 90 minutes, the train resumed crawling toward the Sparks yard, 4 miles west.
The horse photo's small; sorry.
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