FINALLY!  After 63 revisions, I figured it out.  The input size for the image I had was too big.  There weren’t enough weights to overfit.   I went back to formula and dropped the width/height by 50% and it was able to overfit in less than 2k iterations.

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Thank you to everyone that helped (both here and in other forums).  This is a wonderful outcome.