I wasn't going to respond to this thread but it seems that a number of people have lost watches.
I was coming back from Alaska in 1962 when I was 18 and was low on cash. I jumped a freight in Sudbury, Canada. All the boxcars were locked and sealed so I climbed into a gondola loaded with new steel beams, big stuff with 24" webs. I had taken off my birthday present watch with my name inscribed on the back and laid it on a beam. About 10 miles later, we hit some rough track and the beams shifted. I am lucky all I lost was the watch and not my life or limbs. Nope, nobody mailed it back to me. That was the last watch I ever owned.
It took three weeks to get from Anchorage to Boston. Started the trip with the purchase of BSA motorcycle. After about three hundred miles, the bike wasn't running very well. Pulled over and found a five dollar bill in the middle of nowhere. Had to sell the bike to a car hauler who let me ride in a Buick on the upper deck. We were held up for several days because of washouts on the Alcan Highway. Eventually got to Edmonton and hitched a ride in a 2-ton Chevy flatbed hauling aluminum sheet to Toronto. He let me drive and I destroyed a front wheel and tire on a section of road under construction near Sudbury. Rode that freight to Montreal and had enough money to buy a ticket to Lowell, MA and got a cab home. Met alot of nice people. One couple put me up for the night.
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