Quick stop at Sioux Lookout, 15 minutes tops. Enough time to sprint to the gas station and overpay for some munchies. Should be set for the next couple days though.
And by quick, I mean quick. enough time to get back, snap a couple pics, and board back up. An extended smoke break, really.
Almost left without one, as we were locked up and he was knocking on the outside. They relented enough to let him back in, so he could continue to Vancouver. A near thing though, kinda like the cruise ships departing the dock.
Large machines move to a schedule, with inertia.
There is a lesson there, with regards to not only trains and boats, old unsexy tech of yesteryear, but the new soon-to-be-unsexy tech of the 21st century. Because who really finds a warehouse or a datacenter sexy, honestly? But while we’ve grown accustomed to thinking of modern tech as the personal, catering to our individual selves, the tech behind the scenes, is big, impersonal, and moves with the inertia of the train I’m sitting on.