9 am Saturday: Winnemucca, NV

This is less a station and more a glorified bus stop. The platform is kind of short and our train is kind of long so we actually had to make two stops at this terminal. Fortunately the sleeper cars were at the end of the platform on the first stop and at the beginning of the platform on the second stop so we had access to and from our car for the duration of this visit.

You can sort of see Francis waving out her window at us.Read more