Pretty, but not Emeryville.
COLFAX, Calif. – We have reached a milestone on the trip, and as you’ve figured out by now it’s not a good one. It’s now after 6:10 p.m. Pacific Time, and the schedule says we’re supposed to be at our final destination of Emeryville, California right now.
Except we aren’t anywhere near there. In fact, we only just now got to Colfax, where we were supposed to arrive at 1:46 p.m. So that’s almost four and a half hours late and it wouldn’t surprise me if it gets to five by the time all is said and done.
Instead, we’re still high up in the Sierra Nevadas, slowly making our way through the Cold Stream Canyon and down towards Roseville and Sacramento. It’s spectacular, and there’s been some interesting commentary on the public address system by a group of narrators from the California State Railroad Museum.
But we’re really late now, and it’s starting to grate on me a bit. We’ve been told that we’re stuck behind a freight train, though we’ve been given no indication of how much longer this will be the case.
So who knows when we’ll get to Emeryville. The schedule says that’s four and a half hours after Colfax, so we seem to be looking at an 11:00 p.m. arrival.
And just as I finished writing this post, a freight train passed us in the other direction.
I’m glad the conductor couldn’t hear me.
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