Had breakfast with a very nice young couple from Tokyo, Daisuke and Rika. Chatted in the lounge car with a retired couple, teachers from Cape Cod, heading to Spokane to visit their daughter. It’s easy to meet people on the train.
Learned more about last night’s 5 hour delay. Ghosts and dogs. Just west of the Twin Cities, a freight train was stopped on the single track we were on. The engineers had hit their 8 hour time limit for a day’s work and had to leave, making it a “ghost train.” A new crew wasn’t readily available and had to be rounded up (the “dog catcher crew”). So, we sat for 4 hours or so until the new crew arrived.
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| Observation/lounge car in North Dakota |
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| Daisuke and Rika from Tokyo |
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