We had been on the train for about eleven hours. We were somewhere in Iowa, rolling through the countryside. It was a little after one in the morning, which put us about five hours behind, after a delay departing Chicago and multiple delays waiting on freight trains along the way. While we should have been sleeping, Kat and I were both enjoying the relaxing sway of the train as it traveled down the tracks. Watching the small towns and farms go by helped us to forget about our hectic daily lives and yearn for a simpler life.
With very little noise coming from the other compartments in the Superliner sleeper car, it seemed that almost everyone else was asleep for the night.
This trip was purely a pleasure trip, which meant that our delays and extra time spent on the train wasn't a big deal to us. After all, the train was part of the vacation, not just a way to get there. The houses were getting closer together and the number of street lights was increasing, which was a sure sign that we were approaching another town. The conductor soon announced that we were approaching Osceola, Iowa. The train slowed and then rolled to a stop in front of the station, where an older couple waited to board. They were quickly aboard, closer to the front of the train, possibly even in the coaches immediately behind the locomotives. It wasn't more than a minute or two before the train was once again rolling.
As we headed out of downtown Osceola, the tracks met up with a stretch of US 34. The train didn't get up to full speed before we once again slowed and finally came to a stop just outside of town. A few cars were whizzing by on US 34 as we waited to see what was going on. There were no announcements and it sounded as though none of the sleeping passengers had even noticed that we had stopped.
I reached down into my bag and grabbed my handheld scanner, turned it on and started to try to find what channel the train crew was currently talking on. A few minutes later, I was listening to the crew, but the only thing useful that we heard was, "It's going to take them a while to clean this up. We're probably gonna be here for a while." When Kat heard this she said, "I might as well put on something comfortable then."
She was still wearing the blue jeans and blouse that she'd been wearing all day. She reached down into one of her bags and picked out some clothes and then slid out the door to head for the restroom down the hall.
There were two tracks in the spot where we had stopped. We were westbound on the track furthest from the highway. On the other track, there was a cut of grain hoppers. The last hopper was roughly even with the back of our train. As we were in the very last car of the train, this meant that we had a view straight out to the highway and to the southwest, but no view back toward Osceola or of anything on the north side of the train.
Kat hadn't been gone long when a semi, pulling a flatbed trailer loaded with some large piece of machinery covered in a tarp pulled onto the shoulder of US-34, with the cab of his truck even with the window of our room. I'm sure that our light was the only one on in our car, so it probably drew his attention. It occurred to me that, with his CB radio and FM stereo, he may have more information about what was going on than I did. Once again, I reached into my bag of electronics and pulled out a handheld CB that my dad had given me when I was a kid. I turned it on to make sure that it would work and then found a piece of paper and a marker to make a note for the trucker. On the paper, I simply wrote, "Channel 25". I held the note up to the window and held up my radio next to it. He understood my request and gave me a call on the CB. I decided on the handle of Train Geek to make it clear that it was me. He told me that he wasn't sure what was going on yet, but he could see that the state police had the ramps onto the interstate, which was only another ½ mile or so up the road, completely closed, so he pulled over to rest, rather than burning up his hours sitting at the roadblock. He told me to stay on that channel and he would see what he could find out and then get back to me. I thanked him and then sat the radio down to wait for his reply.
A few minutes later, I heard the door of the room slide open and Kat walked in, carrying her dirty clothes and wearing a pair of sweatpants and a baggy t-shirt. As she was putting her clothes into a plastic bag, I said, "Feel more comfortable?"
I don't know if I had a tone in my voice that told her that I would have rather had her return in something else or not, but she replied with, "Yep. Do you like it?"
"I was hoping for something a little more revealing, but if you're comfortable..."
With that, she gave me a smile and then pulled the sweatpants down and let them drop to the floor, revealing a tiny little hot pink thong. There was just a bit of hot pink lace peeking out from under her t-shirt suggesting that there was something promising above the waist also.
As she picked up the sweatpants and threw them aside, she asked, "Better?"
"Getting there."
With that, she gripped the bottom of her shirt and started to lift it. She began to reveal a hot pink nighty with a slit down the front. It was a combination of lace and sheer and looked as though it would leave little to the imagination. Just as she prepared to pull the shirt over her head, the CB came alive with, "Train Geek this is Heavy Hauler. I've got some info for you."
Startled by the unknown voice, Kat quickly pulled the shirt back down to her waist and looked at me. I picked up the CB and replied, "Train Geek, go ahead."
With that, Kat looked out the window and saw the truck. Heavy Hauler came back and said, "Seems that there was a truck up on the interstate that lost control on the bridge, lost his load and has shut down the interstate and the railroad tracks. They are working on cleaning it up... And Train Babe... don't stop on my account."
I thanked him for the info.
"Well, are you going to keep going, Train Babe?" he replied.
I handed Kat the CB. Her face and neck were completely blushed, as she was embarrassed and not sure how to reply. She finally keyed the radio and said, "I don't know. I'm not sure what to do at this point. You kinda surprised me."
"Well, I'm sitting here 1000 miles from home, waiting on these guys to clean up this mess so that I can go deliver this load and get back home. I was hoping that I was gonna get a show."
Kat just stood there holding the CB obviously weighing her options.
After a minute or two, Heavy Hauler came back and suggested, "Train Geek, if she's having trouble with that shirt, maybe you can give her some help."
With that, Kat keyed the radio and said, "You don't want to see this."
Heavy Hauler replied, "Oh, from what I've seen so far, I assure you that I most definitely do! You have a gorgeous body."
Kat handed me the radio and proceeded to remove the t-shirt, revealing the rest of the hot pink nighty. It had lace cups with underwires that half contained her huge breasts. It had thin spaghetti straps that were the only things preventing her breasts from exploding out of the lace. Below the underwire, it was thin sheer fabric that hung loose and reached just to the widest part of her hips. It hung open in the front, showing Kat's muscular, but still feminine stomach and the slightest bit of a pooch, just above the little pink thong.
She tossed the shirt aside, raised her arms as though to say, "Here I am!", looked at me and said, "What do you think?"
"Very nice!" I replied.
She then turned toward the window and did the same motion.
Across the radio, Heavy Hauler called out, "Wow! Can you turn for me?"
Kat had a look of flattery and the blush of embarrassment from the request, but complied by slowly turning around in a circle for him, letting him see how her outfit looked from all directions.
"You have an amazing body Train Babe! I especially like your thick muscular thighs and your tits are fantastic!" came the response from Heavy Hauler, "I wish that I could see them without your pajamas on."
Kat just gave him a look of disbelief and then looked at me with that look that told me that she wasn't sure what to do next. Heavy Hauler must have caught onto that, because he was quickly back on the radio, "I'd love to see more of those legs though."
She seemed to me more comfortable with that request, as she stepped over to one of the seats, facing the window and put her left foot up on the seat to show off her thighs. She bent forward and slid her hands down her calf to her ankle and then back up to her knee and up her thigh.
"The darned window sill is blocking a lot of my view. Is there any way that you can step up onto that seat or something?" Heavy Hauler requested.
Kat tried to step up onto the seat, but couldn't manage to get both feet onto the seat and maintain her balance. So, she stepped toward me, raised her right leg and put her right foot on the seat between my knees and then stepped up with her left foot on the other seat. She was facing the window and only had to spread her legs a little in order to stand on the two seats. I reached up and wrapped my hand around the front of her thigh with my fingers wrapped around the inside of her thigh.
The way that the car was built and the position that Kat was in, she was off balance and having to lean back slightly, due to the upper bunk being in her way.
"This isn't very comfortable" she finally said.
"Then turn around the other way, so that you are leaning forward, not backward." Was my solution.
"I don't think that he wants to see that."
With that, I picked up the radio and asked, "Heavy Hauler, this isn't very comfortable for her. Do you think that she should turn around?"