They stop in various small towns along the way doing the door to door dentistry thing and they actually make a lot of money doing that. The problem is they’ve got a talent for spending it as well. He tells this one story about how they had bought a ton of alcohol on one of their train stops. And then they get back on the train and they share the alcohol with their besties, the train crew, who then get so drunk that he and Jack have to drive the fucking train.
“I put out the lanterns and did the other necessary chores in the caboose while Jack did the honors with the engine, more or less under the direction of the inebriated engineer. I expected that we would go off the tracks any moment. Eventually, the crew sobered up enough to take the train into Montreal station.”
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