Well, I think you might have the event a little off. I will have to look and see if I can figure out which trip it was, but I think it was the March trip. 4070 left with a tender not quite full of water, so I was told. We got out into the middle of no where and were stranded, as the engine was cut off and ran light to I think Valpo... We sat in a field alongside the coaches and waited and waited. Eventually the 4070 returned, but the trip did not go any further. Instead we had to wait for a diesel freight train to come and get us and haul us back to the Dearborn Station. The trip made headlines. My buddy's father called the Chicago police to see where we were, and his Dad called mine to let him know the problems. I do not recall what time of the early AM we got into Dearborn, but then we had to walk to Union Station to get a Milwaukee passenger train back to hometown Milwaukee. I can still remember trying to sleep on the hard benches, as we waited for the first departure to Milwaukee; and there was an arcade game in a corner somewhere, and it had to do with a submarine game, and all you could hear was the constant sonar blip as the game awaited a customer to go up to it and play the game. That was the last excursion I was on with Dick Jensen. He always meant well, but had a lot of problems. By 1970 I took a trip to Colorado and rode the #8444 from Denver to Laramie WY. and back. That was a heck of an excursion, really well run by the U.P.
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