T-3 Days and still rolling

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Inside . . . there was lots of drama regarding folks who were traveling by them selves trying to take two seats with either their gear or trying to lay across both to sleep. The train has basically been full since we left and there are not many spare seats.

Here the conductor tries to calm down a belligerent rider who was bout one stop away from being ejected from the train in Havre, MT!!! You can see from the woman on the rights face, she had had about enough of the whole thing.  So had the rest of us.

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We finally left ND and entered MT,  which in the east looked a lot like ND, but before long we we abut ready to enter Glacier National Park. Unfortunately, due to the constant pulling over on sidings to let freight go by, we were now running behind schedule and went though the park at night.  Although Amtrak has the right of way on rail lines most freight trains are 160-200 cars long and will not fit on the siding . . . so guess who pulls over instead.  Time for bed!!!