Gone With the WindCh 5 Kyle Palmer
March 15th, 6:39 PM CT, Mile 210, 5 miles west of Burlington, IA Bob Benjamin was on his first solo run driving a train. All his effort and his time, all the schooling, all the training, all the assisted runs with the experienced engineers had come together to this point. This was his dream, to be an engineer on a famous passenger train, moving hundreds of people to their destination. Not only was this a glamourous job, to Benjamin; this was a decent paying job. The perfect convergence of...