Swap a syllable.

Train conductors call hot dogs glizzers. I learned this, and the list of famous men who make their homes in Southwest Colorado, from Josh. Josh waited on Neil Young and David Letterman and Kevin Costner — all men with a special interest in trains; that surprises me in only one of their cases — on the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Train. He’s my conductor now….not mine alone, a privilege he reserved for country legend Jo Dee Messina. She was on the same voyage as Cara Delevingne, but he was only starstruck in the former case.

Where are you from? he asked.

New Orleans, I said.

Good train city, he acknowledges.

Best train city.