Back on the Train, Stuck in the Rain

We were to leave at noon but we had to wait for another train which did not show up until five o'clock and it was an American train with ten tons of dynamite. They said it was all quiet at Shkotovo and that the Bolsheviks were making it further up north. We left at six o'clock and as luck would have it I had to guard the train back through Shkotovo. This being the third night that I did not have a wink of sleep, at Razdolnoye the engine broke down and I walked up to the engine and the oil pipe leading to one of the cylinders was off and I had to help fix it and it sure was raining. I got grease all over my raincoat and still have it up to this day, which always reminds me of that wonderful night.