Certain geometries of arm, leg and spine are ill-advised, uncomfortable soon enough and agony soon after.
As the train eased into the station above the milky, mineral rush of the Kicking Horse River, the ranks of men atop the freight cars gratefully unkinked knees, unlocked fingers clinging to narrow catwalks, raised rumps blistered by weathered timber during the bone-rattling ride from Golden. The hiss of steam from the slowing locomotive might have been a collective sigh of relief.
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