Holdin on the rail

Spent the weekend in Chicago and had a great time visiting a friend with two kids under the age of 2. It would have been great if I'd had more time, but isn't that always the case? Anyway, the train ride there was delayed by an hour... the ride back was only a half hour late... seems that Amtrack has a high speed rail between Niles, MI and Kalamazoo, MI that allows the train to go up to 95 mph. The conductor was very excited to share this... however, this was where the delay came in, since there is only one track for a portion and the train leaving K-zoo was already on it... so we sat for a half hour. Oh, the irony. But, once they get this high speed upgrade on all trains, and all tracks, it will shave 2.5 hours off the rail time from Detroit to Chicago--I wonder what that will shave off the delay time? Still, I prefer the train... even if the woman across the aisle from me was busy spreading the word of Jesus to some unsuspecting passenger. For 2 hours I over heard the joys of miracles, the rapture and other scripture references and all clearly heard over my iPod.