Today was the day. Train day. But first, we spent the night in Mennonite country. Now this is apple country. Along the road we saw these strange tepee type "things" and found out later what they were used for. This area has a lot of spring storms and to protect the apples from HAIL they cover them with this netting. Most of the fields have these tied up nets.
This is our Wagon masters coach being the first loaded onto the rail cars. We took about 3 hours to load 22 coach's onto 22 flatcars. Driving the rigs onto each flatcar is by ramps between the cars and they are not secured all that well. There is a "train person" that guides you as you cross the ramps and keeps you extremely close to the left side so that you will have room enough to exit your coach on the passenger side, where the rail is.
There were three lines of flatcars that we loaded one by one. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words so don't forget to visit our web album at www.picasaweb.google.com/mimmexico/MexicoCaravan.
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