May and it's already hot in SoCal with the "haze" over the hills. The track boys have cleared up enough to let a hot train through, leaving their materials lying trackside. The operator has alerted me so I had stand up, to put down my frosty ice tea and stroll out of the air conditioning to the porch to shoot one of the increasingly rare basic freight-scheme units on an eastbound. It was tough but somebody had to do it. Thank you, Jay, wherever you are.
