Friday, June 12, 2009

St. Paul on time

We arrived in St. Paul right on time though we had been running about 15 minutes late. The Portland sleeper is now the last car on the train as Minnesota Commercial Railroad came in right behind us and pulled off the coach that is Chicago to St. Paul only. That will give me a chance to shoot pictures out the back window tomorrow.

As we rolled through the western part of Wisconsin we were treated to a fine sunset. The clouds had been hanging low all day but as we approached the western edge of the clouds the sun dropped below them and shown on the bottom of the cloud layer. At that point we were headed almost due north so I got a great view of the sunset out the left side of the train. Then I looked out the east side and was treated to a full double rainbow. In the summer time this is really beautiful country.

Leaving St. Paul on time.