back to New Jersey) with little hope of locat- ing it only to find it on the ground where he thought it might be. I had a similar experi- ence, again on the Joint Line. In the process of shoveling out my truck from a ditch full of snow I had blundered into while parking to wait for a train, I unknowingly missed my pocket and dropped my main set of car keys somewhere in the soft snow. I say “some- where” because I did not discover they were not in my pocket until after I had tromped and shoveled the snow all around the truck; I had no idea where exactly they could have fallen or been thrown to with my shoveling. Fortunately I always carry a backup set, so I was able to get home, but the lost set con- tained my only extra chip key to my wife’s car, which would cost $65 to replace. I re- turned after waiting a week for the snow to melt off, but no luck – the snow lingered. However, I returned after waiting a second week, the snow was all gone and there on the top of the flattened out grass was my set of lost keys, a bit dirty looking but still use- able. (I never did get the photo I was origi- nally waiting for.) Sometimes long waits with no or few
trains can be most frustrating. On the Mof- fat with its sparse traffic I have waited all day at times for one or two trains. One day turned out to be a long wait for naught, as I got only an Amtrak and a one engine/one car work train, neither really inspiring enough to have been worth the wasted time spent waiting. If my scanner had not been broken, I might have known the line was closed to coal and freight traffic during the day for work clearing flood damage. I mentioned above that the Joint Line can
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