Today was the day the Big Boy arrived in St. Louis. We traveled west to see it moving. Tomorrow, it will be stationary all day. It was a crazy day! I have included pictures. But the best is a video that Ryan took as we drove alongside the train. It will be after he gets back home before he can post it. But I will include a link when he does. We began the day just looking at tracks around here, so I included a few photos of engines we saw parked. Then we went to a crossing area to wait for the Big Boy. It ended up stopping there, which was not what we wanted. They did that because there were parallel tracks and they needed to let an Amtrak train going the other way by. So we took off to get ahead, then waited in the car so we could travel alongside him. You can see the crowds at the crossing and all along the track where it comes through. It has the loudest horn! Two of the photos below were taken by Ryan. The one where the engineer, Ed Dickens, is looking dead at the camera was taken by Ryan. He also took the one that has the arch sticking above the train. I focused more on driving than photography. I only brought my phone camera, but it has me excited to pull out my good camera and try to get back to doing some quality photography again.
When Dane was looking to restart his business in TN, we were working on a name. JADA stands for Jennifer and Dane Alexander. Symbolically, the name is associated with purity, wisdom, tranquility, serenity, good luck, and prosperity. All good things we aspire for in life and business. So we named the business JADA Services. Tires are the core of our business, but we named it "Services" to leave room to broaden our scope. This site is for our business, as well as our personal blogs. Please have patience as we know nothing about creating a website!
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