3751 to San Diego - take 2

The steam engine Jim works on, 3751, took another trip to San Diego today. This was a special collection of private rail car owners - 24 in all. I went with Melanie's family to the Irvine station to watch it roll by at 8:30 this morning.

Here are Jake and Tyler looking down the tracks trying to catch the first glimpse of the headlight.


Here she blows!!

It was an amazingly long train with the cars being of various vintages. It's always fun to see the people hanging out and wave at them. I've been lucky enough to be on the train the last couple times and it was fun to experience whipping by this time.

I think the kids enjoyed it. Tyler had lots of questions and said it was an "exciting" day. He was counting how many exciting things had happened that morning and we had come up with six so far: three trains (3751 plus two Amtraks), a bunny, a squirrel and chickens. And it was only 10:00 a.m!