We reach White Sulphur Springs in about an hour and board our passengers. They inform us that they formed a pool to bet on our arrival time. There are three seatings for dinner tonight. By the time we sit down to dinner, it must be about 2030. The menu features a garden salad, tasty beef stew and dessert of white seedless grapes in a special cream sauce.
Wine is served with the meal.
The candles are lit, highlighting a full setting of CN china and silver atop a white linen tablecloth. It is very elegant. I'm up before we reach Huntington in order to get another look at the C. P. Huntington Chapter NRHS passenger cars stored near the station. I spend some time alone in the dome watching our midnight passage across northern Kentucky. I call it a day sometime after midnight when we stop to fuel and water the consist at the CSX yard.