Many years ago, a flood hit part of Kansas and wiped out many a farm and a goodly portion of the AT&SF RR. RR men spent a great deal of time cleaning up and collecting all the wrecked rolling stock and parts of the track that had been swept away. But, despite a diligent search, one boxcar eluded their efforts. They could identify the parts of every other piece of equipment but that one car. This loss made the Accounting Dept, the insurance company, the RR it belonged to, and the ICC all very unhappy, but nothing turned up.
Years later, a RR man was driving down an old farm road not too far from the the long-cleaned-up disaster area. He happened to glance down a side road and, among the barns and sheds of a farmstead, caught a familiar shape out of the corner of his eye: it looked like a peaked roof on a shed that had what looked like a roof walk on it.
Intrigued, he backed up and turned down the side road. As he got closer, he became convinced that there was a boxcar next to a barn with a lean-to built up against it. He stopped to talk with the farmer. Sure enough, back when the big flood had happened, the farmer returned to his devastated farmstead to find all of his buildings wrecked but one "new building" sitting near what was left of his home. Grateful for this unexpected blessing in the midst of destruction, the farmer, who hadn't understood just what the structure was, had used it as the nucleus of his new buildings. It had served as storage, as shelter, as a workshop: all as the farmer needed at various times.
The RR man looked at the frame and verified that, yes: it was the long-lost boxcar. But he didn't even tell the farmer what he had: he was certain that he could go back to the office and put to rest the mystery of the lost car, closing the books for everyone. He reported that he found a piece of iron buried in a field--which was true as far as it went--but left the farmer to enjoy his shed.
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