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It was bright and sunny at the station as Bwana's Peace Train started loading. John Domico, Bob Cornwall, Marty Klanchar, John Sheakosi, Costas Maranas, Brett Michaud, Mark Fedkin, Meira Minard, Jessica Wekke, Dave DeGroote, Ann Marie Oldani, Janet Jonson, Mark Traband, Michael Goldfine, Jerry Steffy, and Marty Mazur got aboard the express to the MSF. Greg Dillon had taken the early shuttle and Lee Culver, Jim Moore, Tom Hilands, Lance Bland, Aroline Seibert, and Jim Myers took the pump car on a spur to the outdoor track.

It's no wonder Amtrak doesn't make any money. Everybody's an individualist and has to go their own way, which is why the Car is King. At the MSF, Bwana gave a choice between a timed mile and a 3-4-4-3 lap pace workout. Bwana and Jerry ran a mile, most of the others did the pace workout, and a few took choice 3, not on the menu. Bwana and Jerry confirmed the wisdom of their choice this year not to do the Indoor Miles, both running, to use the technical parlance, slower than a train on a dirt road. If either showed up at an Indoor Mile, they'd be the caboose, for sure. Bwana did a few 200s to round out his workout.

Quite a few of the trains on Bwana's B&O RR are off track in their training. Jim Taylor has been camped out in the dining car lately. John Wilcock has had too much of a one-track mind lately. Greg Luna was heard saying something about needing a boilermaker. Tara Murray is the Little Engine That Could only when a hill is involved. And Kathy Koetje-Simin was getting her trestle worked on!