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Handsome freight train engineer in his late forties with short brown hair graying at the temples, a short beard and gray-blue eyes standing beside a big orange and black locomotive in a Colorado rail yard at golden hour

I Found a 15-Year-Old Boy Hiding in the Nose of My Locomotive, 200 Miles From Anywhere in the Rocky Mountains. He Said If I Stopped the Train, He’d Jump

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I drive freight trains through the Rocky Mountains. Ten thousand tons, two miles long, through tunnels and canyons where no road goes. One night, in the middle of the Moffat Tunnel route, my conductor opened the nose door of the lead locomotive and found a boy curled up inside with a backpack and a black eye.

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