Thirteen thoughts while standing on the wrong side of a freight train

• Might as well get comfortable I'll be here for a while
• Union Pacific ... Building America - hmmm, delivering goods to America perhaps but building America, I don't know about that one.
  
• Still wondering why freight trains are stacked with the longer container on top of the shorter container.
• If my throat didn't hurt so much I would contemplate hopping the freight train
• The train is made up of unusually American container companies, no Hanjiin or Hyundai perhaps due to this being a Union Pacific instead of BNSF.
  
• Some of the wheels are held on by lug nuts in the customary round formation like the wheels on cars but some are in a more triangular formation.
• Luckily I'm not in a rush to get anywhere when the train comes by, I just get to enjoy watching it.
• Wish I had brought my camera
• What a perfect seventy degree day
• Wonder if the box of illicit materials my brother brought me from SE Asia arrived today.
• I must be able to blog about this train
• Do they really need to blow the whistle so loud when the engineer can see noone is in the intersection
• People next to me are crossing the street so the cars can move as soon as the train is done. Time to go.