Hi ptrblck,
Thanks for looking over my problem.  I can’t see any logical differences between my save/resume code and yours. Not saying that there’s no difference, just that I cannot see any difference.  Did you happen to see my full code?  One difference I did notice between you gist and my code is that I don’t have a train function.  Since I am new, I have been thinking this is okay because I have the code in the main section.  But I am questioning everything at this point.