Bright sunny skies this morning after last night horrific thunder storm and monsoon rains.
We continued South on US83 to North Platte, on the way through the sand hills of Nebraska there was a small Nebraska Sand Turtle making his way across the highway, which was not smart on his part. I immediately stopped turned around and scooped him up from the middle of the driving lane and made sure he safely deposited down the embankment which was his destination.
Today was also a short day (ride of under 100 miles) so we could take in the largest Railroad Yard in the world on the Union Pacific Railroad. There is an 8 story tower built, two years ago, with outside and inside viewing areas, plus a gift shop, bathrooms, and they have retired RR staff to explain what is happening. This yard is 11 miles long by 2 1/2 miles wide, employees 2,500 staff and use 14million gallons of diesel fuel in a month, over 100 trains pass through this place - word is MEGA!! We spent about 4 hours here and left at closing which was 7pm, lots of pictures and about an hour of video. Also taped the intro segment to the Route 66 video as well, watch for its release in the Fall of 2010.
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