The train is a little difficult to quantify since we weren't paying it much attention to it being a delay since we missed forestburg.
It was at least 5 minutes until we heard the other train whistle and decided it was safe to dig out the camera for pictures since we didn't want to be fussing with it and have the train move.
Just checked the pic images. The first one was 4:58 the latest one is 5:04 when the train just started moving. It took at least 10 minutes for it to clear the intersection.
Outbound to forestburg we beat the train by a minute or less and I believe it was early at the track crossing near 377 that happened and not the 35 one.
I can't believe we were in forestburg for an hour just to get the card signed and eat some fries geash. Actually card signing seemed much more difficult of an affair then I'm used to.
At the start.
After waiting a bit I ended up using the atm to get a receipt with a time 7:06 at the start since there was no one visible in the shop except for one agitaded customer. Girl gets off the phone in that little office behind the counter and comes out to customer saying he just wanted _________ and then she sells us our spree and signs our receipts 7:07 PM. Christine called her back out and she apoligized that she was having family problems and fixed our PM to AM and said she could see how that would be a problem and went back to the phone and wished us a good ride. (and perhaps cursed us when we closed the door because we didnt' even make it out of the lot without a mechanical)
At forestburg it went something like this.
Park the bikes walk in the wrong building and wonder what kind of control this is? ooops wrong building
Walk out of the feed store and into the actual store and see the one casheir waiting on someone at the second register with a line of 3 folks at the first register unattended and one of them griping about it since I believe his friends were waiting outside since they were on a motorcycle ride.
Walk in back to see if there was anyone there but there was just a little kid and about half a dozen folks dressed up yelling across the tiny room at eachother about who knows what.
Return up front and they are still doing something with that other person and finally let him go and came over to check the 3 folks in front of us out.
Per Verizon time it took us 7 minutes from arrival to card signing (VZ Time at checkout was 1:56). We rolled in at 1:49 VZ time which is why I didn't ask someone in front of my for their receipt, ours was 1:52, or make a fuss about the 1:50 time on the card.
At the final control
A different cashier in Van Alstene was outside talking with his GF. ATM Reciept showed 8:53 it seemed longer then 2 minutes before he came in and sold us our goodies and signed it 8:55.
Other misc times that were all my fault
Heading out
Pulley explosion, chain jam, chain jam all in the initial parking lot 15 minutes
Picture stop in the beginning 10 minutes (I saw long my wife says shorter)
Stopping at the Exxon by 35 on the first leg and having to wait for the rest room 15 minutes
Coming back
Chain mysteriously falling off coasting down a hill 5 minutes
Digging out the helmet lights ouf of my bag and doing battery changes on all rear lights that had been running all day. 5 minutes
Pictures at finish, Loading up the bikes, cleaning up, getting a treat 10 minutes
It was a good ride and we learned some stuff like not to make the mistake of trusting a replacement pulley that is 10 miles old to last any better then the one that lasted over 700 miles. Bring more frosted flakes
etc etc.