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Friends of the Burlington Northern RRFriday evening June 15, 2012 FOBNR Board annual meeting President John Adams* presiding (at far end of table). Not all the board members could attend so they were teleconferenced in. Here VP Dave (to the right of John) is talking to the board members. *Sorry Doctor, I just could not help myself! Friends of the Burlington Northern RRFriday evening June 15, 2011 Jerry Michels of the Amarillo RR Museum shows slides of BN in Amarillo to round out the day’s activities. Other attendees also presented their slides. Friends of the Burlington Northern RRSaturday June 15, 2011 Track side of Amarillo Station The agenda called for us to carpool to the Canadian River Bridge Saturday morning but others had explored the area earlier and told the group you could not get close to the bridge. So we all split up in carloads and railfanned the whole day. The day started out cloudy. Friends of the Burlington Northern RRSaturday June 15, 2012 Amarillo Railfanning Eastbound stack train, location unknown but the sky is clearing. There are 3 main lines here and we were told that 97 trains went through Amarillo on Saturday. Friends of the Burlington Northern RRSaturday June 15, 2012 Amarillo Railfanning Westbound Grain Train, location unknown. I was riding with Pat Hiatte again. Mike Danneman and Kent Charles were with us. Friends of the Burlington Northern RRSaturday June 15, 2012 Amarillo Railfanning Eastbound Grain Train leaving Canon, Texas. This was as far South as we got Saturday. From here we returned to Amarillo, stopped at a hobby shop and then went on for lunch. Friends of the Burlington Northern RRSaturday June 15, 2011 Amarillo Railfanning After lunch, Westbound Coal Train. Kent and Mike in the lower left. We found out in the evening that the Amarillo Terminal Superintendant had notified the railroad police and train crews that a number of us would be out photographing so not to be concerned. Friends of the Burlington No