Another Month

I received yet another month's rail pass in the mail this weekend, just in time to start the June commute.  And it certainly is going to be a hot one.  Temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday hit the high 90s.  Last year when the mercury hit that level trains were regularly breaking down.  This year MARC seems to have taken some preventative measures to keep the trains running smoothly.  The trains have fewer cars so the diesel engines don/t have as much of load to pull in the sweltering heat.  Fewer cars means more people standing, though.  And let me just say a train car filled with hot, sweaty, and standing people is not a very pleasant place.  Fortunately it's early enough in the season for people to have a sense of humor about the situation.  Also fortunate for us riders is that the air conditioning appears to be working well.  Who knows, however, what July will bring.