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That sounds like a heavy dose for one train. Once, on no 9 I threw a guy off for lighting his headrest on fire with a lighter. There was a time on no 9 when it was a night train where we stopped at Sturtevant, I put the step box down and said, "Come on in and make yourselves feel at home." So this guy gets on, finds a seat and takes his pants off. We had a group of ladies traveling to Chicago for a bowling tournament once on no 8. They took over the entire big-dome car, got 10 plastic cups and watermelon, and were conducting their own bowling set right there in the dome. And then there was the time on no 7 when there was a duplicate sale in one of the sleepers. A well groomed family boarded and occupied a bedroom. At Glenview another well dressed family got on with the same room, and there were none left to spare. Both families squeezed into the room and started to battle. I couldn't settle the matter, so I closed the door and waited for the cops in Milwaukee. The room sounded like a bad-order washing machine with a load of sneakers in it. <br /> <br />Of course drunks are a special problem. We had to "goose" a drunk one evening on the 6.55 to Fox Lake in order to get him to leave the train. And then there was this fellow who boarded the midnight wearing a huge sombrero. He sat down, swivled his head from side to side, took off his sombrero, looked into it, and unloaded his evening meal. He then put the hat back on. <br /> <br />This all happened in the seventies. Boorish behavior is nothing new. <br /> <br />Mitch
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