January 1st, 2020
We started the year in Galveston, took the Bolivar Ferry, which is free and state-run in a place where socialism is anathema, and worked our way into Louisiana on the hunt more for crawfish than trains.
Orange, Texas
Orange is on the Texas-Louisiana border along the Union Pacific and I-10.
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After sitting just out of view for nearly an hour as an Amtrak cooled its heels just out of view in the other direction waiting, I told my daughter that the best way to make a train come was to give up and leave. I packed up my tripod, got in the car, and the train finally moved without warning, passing at excruciating slow speed with plenty of brake noise.
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After losing at least an hour to a UP parked on the main due to what appeared to be an outlawed crew, this slightly overpowered Amtrak finally got to move on.