| My hopes in seeing the Bloomer were beginning to slowly fade away after I had spent so much time on the IC, but things were regenerated again when I got almost into Collum and heard both an engineer and a conductor on the Bloomer come in very clearly on their frequency. Sure enough, they were just finishing loading up their first cut of cars at Cullom! For the first time, I was going to get to photograph the Bloomer! I picked up a couple quick shots while they were loading before setting myself up for the southbound run. |