We started out yesterday on the TE, we boarded our sleeping car with the help of Jim who helped w our bags. He had plenty of magazines spread out where the ice usually is,for us to read. He came up and introduced hisself after we departed, and informed us ice was in his room and to help ourselves.He was a very good attendant keeping us informed about most everything. The train was really early into Marshall Tx. and we had to wait almost and hour before we could depart ontime. Unlike or last trip out of town last fall, we were stuck in Marshall well after midnite with no explanation, but on that trip we got to see some rare daylight scenery on the TE that was really nice. We woke up this morning stopped outside of STL well ahead of schedule. We are now sitting in the Springfield IL station waiting on the thru way bus to takr us over to Galesburg so we can catch the west bound Zephyr. I hope the rest of the trip goed as good as tthe first leg. I never get around to writing my trip reports so I thought I would go ahead and write this one on the fly while we were sitting here.Catch ya in Sacramento