it is 6:40 p.m. Thursday evening September 5th 2024 we're aboard a lower level superliner coach of Amtrak train number five the California Zephyr departing gilburg Illinois should have departed at 4:43 p.m. I'm going to see a former Chicago Burlington Quincy everywhere West box car there he is oh here he is oh gillsburg population 30,000 home of Knox College and Carl Sandberg College home of poet Carl Sandberg we're now on the BNSF Railway ATA subdivision originally the Chicago Burlington Quincy Railroad consist is two General Electric p42dc diesel Electric