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"I can't pinpoint it exactly without an old map"

Giordino quickly glanced through several topographical o back to nineteen sixty-five"

"How did you discover this Mondragon Hook?" asked Pitt

"Eleed "I asked myself where I would hide a locomotive and seven Pullman cars where no one could find thean working backward and checked old Albany dispatch records before nineteen fourteen I hit pay dirt and found eight different freight trains that hauled ore cars loaded with limestone"

"Limestone?"

"Yes, the shipon Hook and were destined for a cement plant in New Jersey"

"When?"

"In the eighteen nineties"

Giordino looked skeptical "This Mondragon Hook could have been hundreds of miles from here"

"It had to be below Albany," said Heidi

"How can you be sure?"

"New York & Quebec Northern records don't list ore cars carrying lih Albany But I did run across afrom the Germantown rail yard where there was a switch of locomotives"

"Germantown," said Pitt "That's fifteen miles downriver"

"My next step was to search through old geological maps," Heidi continued She paused and slipped one from her briefcase and flattened it on the table "The only underground limestone quarry between Albany and Germantown lay here" She made a mark with a pencil "About nine e and three-quarters of a mile west"

Pitt put the binocular glasses to his eyes and began scanning the aerial photos "Here, due east of the quarry site, is a dairy farm The house and barnyard have erased all remains of the junction"