Who cares if the trains are on time ?

 What you really want is for trains to be plentiful and uncrowded.  But everyone has heard this about baldo Benito:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/stop-saying-mussolini-made-the-trains-run-on-time

For some reason this reminded me of one time when I was on an elevated train platform in the Chicago Loop, 20th century, maybe going home from jury duty at the Daley center ?  I was sitting there waiting for a train when one pulled in.  It wasn't the train I wanted, I was probably waiting for the Lake-Dan Ryan.  Anyway, an older lady comes up the stairs and bellows out:

"HOLD THE TRAIN !"

And the nebbish conductor (with his head out the window) says something like:

"Lady, I've got a schedule, I can't hold the train"

In the meantime the old lady has walked up to the conductor's train car and blocked the open door with her body.  After a little while another little old lady comes up the stairs, walking slower than the first.  And the conductor is saying:

"Lady, we've got to go ! "

Finally the second little old lady makes it into the train and off they all go out of the station.

The schedule is not THAT important (unless the driver in the train behind you is nodding off).

Also this reminds me of Steve McQueen's last movie, The Hunter, where he's doing amazing stunts on the elevated train in Chicago:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5vk36fDn0

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
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