Shining Time Station1989

[last lines]

Mr. Conductor:
[appears in his workshop] Excuse me.

Harry Cupper:
...Are you for real?

Mr. Conductor:
As real as you are.

Harry Cupper:
Was that you I saw before? [Mr. Conductor smiles and nods] That's a relief at least. But what do you do here?

Mr. Conductor:
I live here. Been here since before the Motion Limited made her first run.

Harry Cupper:
That's going back a ways.

Mr. Conductor:
Oh, I've been round the roundhouse a couple of times. Started this job the day the president's train went through. Do you remember that?

Harry Cupper:
Indeed I do! I was working on the Eastern Division then, and just imagine. The President of the United States was going to be riding on the Indian Valley Railroad. The man himself, was on the backpack team, that we were carrying. Just imagine!

Mr. Conductor:
I can! I can! *I* was on that train too!

Harry Cupper:
You were?

Mr. Conductor:
I've been trying to tell you. I was the Indian Valley Railroad Special Conductor. Every special thing that went out, I was there just to make sure that nothing went wrong.

Harry Cupper:
You mean to tell me, we were both on the same train and we didn't even know it?

Harry Cupper:
It looks that way.

Harry Cupper:
Can you beat that. I, uh, didn't catch your name.

Mr. Conductor:
Mr. Conductor, at your service.

Harry Cupper:
I'm glad you spoke up, Mr. Conductor. Yep. Reminds me of a story Big Dan Cunningham told me once...