On 08-23-97 BILL NEWMAN wrote to KEN FREEMAN... 
 
I used 
 BN> to drive different ways each patrol and used Attridge many times. 
 BN> I also would stop occasionally and see if there was anything 
 BN> special coming. 
Lucked out on a unique one this afternoon. was coming back from Henrietta,  
and saw a westbound freight while going across the overpass at Howard Rd.  
Power wasn't really anything notable, maybe just 2 six axle units, was 
heading 
towards home so I decided to head down Chili Ave and see if I could intercept 
it 
at Attridge. Well, I didn't have the scanner active so I didn't have any idea 
 
if they had gotten ahead of me but I made the loop across Attridge, and 
around  
Savage with nothing happening. I was also looking for Ron, who likes to hang 
out 
in the late afternoon at Sanford Rd, so I headed around that way. Well, that 
freight 
was just fast enough that I caught it just after the power went across 
Sanford.  
I must have been just missing that thing at every crossing! Well, it was a  
big one, and it had 4 B23-7's as pushers on the tail, with an axle count 
(finally 
turned on the scanner) of 626 (or so) axles. The "Beaten Twenty-threes" 
shoving  
hard on the tail made it worth it all. I think it was an SYBU, as I'd heard  
the dispatcher talking to that crew a few hours earlier about a pickup at  
Rochester of 34 cars. I figure the 23's were the local power and they needed 
the extra power to make it. That would work out to 147 cars, and it looked 
like it was pretty even loads and empties, so 2 six axles wouldn't have 
been enough power for that tonnage.  
 
Well, take care. See ya trackside sometime.  
                                      K 
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