Who's on first

After several weeks of figuring out just when we would go and who and where, the plans are pretty much in place.  Skip and Bill will leave from the DFW area on Sunday evening, September 12th.  Guess I'll probably miss the Cowboy game that night.  We'll drive to Wichita Falls to pick up Steve then on to Amarillo and Albuquerque.  We meet up with several others to catch Amtrak #4 the northbound Southwest Chief  for La Junta, CO at 12:45.  That night we'll be in a motel directly across from a large BNSF rail yard.  I hear there's not much traffic on that line so there may not be much to see.  Next morning we head back to ABQ on the southbound Chief.  Wednesday will be a day of hunting the wild semaphore between ABQ and Raton.  Overnight in Raton and photograph our way back to ABQ on Thursday.  Friday will be a long day.  The AARPCO train leaves early from ABQ and we want to be in place to catch it "splitting the signals" in as many locations as we can.  As we head north however, our clock will be ticking and soon we will turn toward home.  Plan is to be back in the DFW area by Midnight Friday.