Union Pacific Railroad’s #844 Steam Engine came to Pocatello Friday evening on May 4th. This was one of those Big Deal events in a railroad town like Pocatello. The train was making it’s way from Cheyenne, Wyoming (home base for the engine) to Tacoma, Washington and back. It will be back in Pocatello on Sunday, May 27th and will be open for tours all day on the 28th. You can be sure that we will be there, along with a cast of thousands, to look, touch, take pictures, and buy souveniers.

I did take a bunch of pictures — four rolls of film in all — and picked out a bunch to put in the picture album. This was old technology work. My Minolta digital SLR was stolen and my Sony Cybershot camera is in the repair shop. So I reverted back to 35mm film using my Minolta Maxxum 9 SLR. It’s time to buy a new digital SLR. Since Minolta got out of the camera business and sold it all to Sony, I think I’ll buy a Canon camera to be compatible with Nina. Now it’s just a choice of finding the best deal either in town or on the Internet. When #844 comes back to Pocatello, I want to be taking digital pictures this time!