It's time to freshen up the equipment in service at Caprock, Texas, on the High Plains Division of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company. I have three targets:
- A reefer block;
- A strawberry special with all available express reefers;
- And a detouring Super Chief, all MTH cars. This will be replaced with a heavyweight Chief next month.
While I was hauling out boxes, I came across a banker box of books, timetables, and assorted things, so all work stopped for the evening. 
I got into a couple of my old time books from the 1970's, when I was a Santa Fe Locomotive Engineer, working out of San Bernardino, and spent over an hour lost in memorable trips with long gone railroad men and long since scrapped locomotives. The memories were good, and the time spent was good for me. Old days, old comrades, real, skill-based, railroading with a thin rule book -- it never hurts a fellow to remember good railroad days.
Well . . . as tough old Roundhouse Foreman Tommy Willis would have said, "What're y'all doing drinking coffee and daydreaming. Git to work! You've got both main lines tied up and each of those cars needs to be lubricated!" I can take a hint, Tommy, wherever you are.
