It’s 11:00PM and we should be just a little past Rugby, North Dakota. That’s about five hundred miles from Havre, Montana, and Havre is where we are right now. Every time we make up a few minutes it seems that we have those minutes vanish at a station or while waiting for another train to pass. We passed the westbound train 7 around Essex, Montana. As the two trains parted I heard the engineer on train 7 tell our engineer, “Hey T-bone, you slow down anymore and I’ll catch you tomorrow." That’s not far from wrong. If he is on time tomorrow he will only be fourteen hours behind our train.
Posted by john at July 19, 2006 11:45 AM