Update

I went to London last Thursday. I met my supervisor downtown at Union Station here in Toronto and he followed me up into the cab of the locomotive. It was train #85. Locomotive 6434. We had only three coaches. It was the easiest possible train to handle! The trip went without incident. Along the way, I prayed periodically, asking for calmness and confidence. My boss was in fine fettle. Shortly after we left the station at Toronto, he received a call from his eldest son who’d just been admitted to medical school.

“My son’s going to be a doctor,” he said later. “A doctor!”

He smiled a lot today. And at the end of our journey, he shook my hand.

“You did fine, Dale. Just fine. Now your education will really begin.”

I’m a qualified VIA engineer, Ms J. My training is complete, but as Tom suggested, I’ve still got a lot to learn.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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