UP 9775 With Distracted Conductor

I call this a very lucky shot.. I didn't know I had caught the conductor until I got back to the house. There was a Dodge Ram that had stopped too close to the crossing and it had the gate finger resting on it's roof. The conductor was as amused by it as I was, obviously!

As for the locomotive.. All it knew was it was pulling bare tables southbound at the Hardy Street crossing where this was taken on 10/1/2012.