The next day, the group of us gathered up a few cases of beer (hey, this fantasy is in the 1950s 
), and headed over to a new location for railfanning, just east of Halsted street at a new overpass called Trowbridge Avenue. We had a nice selection of beer, some Olympia from our Minnesota native Nick, some Point Special from our Cheddar head Little John ("When you are out of Point, you are out of town"). some Coors that one of the group bought in Missouri a couple of weeks earlier, and then the usual Milwaukee swill; Pabst, Schlitz, Miller, and Blatz.
Nice location, and there was a nice stand of trees on the hill that was in full color.
Our first train had the Great Northern M-2 on the head end, which we photographed the day before. She laid over at Stage yard on Friday night, and I took some photos of her at the engine terminal early Saturday morning. I'll post those later.
Next up was a rare Santa Fe freight. On previous trips, we only saw Santa Fe passenger, so our resident Santa Fe nut Jim gulped down a Schlitz in appreciation.
The last video we shot at Trowbridge overpass was a B&O passenger train, clean as could be heading to the big city. Little John was so ecstatic he downed two Pabst Blue Ribbons in quick succession.
For the rest of the afternoon, we headed over to Robillard Corner, where we caught a shot of our favorite train, which was headed towards a beer festival in Milwaukee. There was a lot of discussion about whether or not we could hijack the train ("What are we going to do with all this beer, eh?"). Unfortunately, while I was recording, Little John was blasting his radio which was playing a song by some guy called Choo Choo Bob. I have no idea why this is, but for some explained reason, I started muttering "Redrum, Redrum". A short time later, Jim saw Jack walking towards Little John's vehicle, with an ax, and yelled out "Here's Johnny!". Jim handed him an Oly, that seemed to calm him down.
With our bellies full of beer, and out of film, we drove over to our favorite pizza joint for dinner at a place called Mama Mia's.
Regards,
GNNPNUT
