We rode the train pulled by Southern Railway 401 to the Wabash station in Monticello and we all detrained for more pictures.
Southern Railway 401 at Monticello.
Back up move 24.
Photo runby 24.
Back up move 25.
Photo runby 25.
The Monticello Wabash station. We all reboarded and the train took us to west yard just past the Norfolk Southern mainline bridge in Monticello, where everyone had to detrain as it was going to back to the grain elevator on exempt tracks. We all walked to get our next sets of pictures.
Back up move 26.
Posed pictures at the Monticello Grain Company elevator.
Photo runby 26.
Back up move 27.
Photo runby 27. We all walked back to where we had detrained and set up for our next photo runbys.
Photo runby 28.
Back up move 29.
Photo runby 29.
Photo runby 30.
Back up move 30.
Photo runby 31. Joshua then gave us a vote. Choice A was to go to the east end of the track then return to the museum for more photo runbys or Choice B was straight back to the museum for more photo runbys. We all chose choice A and reboarded the train, riding the entire railroad to the eastern limits of operations.
This was the bridge which we could not cross, thus could not travel any further east.
There is a wye just beyond that first tank car.
This was the bridge that we could not cross. We reboarded and returned to West Hearth Road for another photo runby.
Back up move 31.
The last photo runby was the thirty-second. With that complete and having to drive to Monee, I returned to the museum and departed. Special thanks to Joshua Scott and the entire staff of the Monticello Railway Museum for thirty-two photo runbys and a fantastic trip behind Southern Railway 401. I said goodbye to all my friends, was first off and drove directly to the Country Inn and Suites in Monee for the night, arriving there in time to watch the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Washington Capitals 4-2 before calling it a night.
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