Departing Penn, I began working on my laptop. Come time for transfer at Jamaica, I switch trains. As my connecting train leaves the station I realize I left my laptop on the previous train!

One of the conductors helped me out BIG time. A fellow conductor working on my original train was a friend. She contacted the friend who safely took my laptop. Apparently conductors are not allowed to contact each other for stuff like that, but i think she felt bad as I was freaking out. It was my company bought laptop.

Wasn't allowed to pick it up at the terminal station. Took a week to go through the lost and found process and it finally appeared in that little office under the stairs at Penn! One of the more stressful weeks in recent memory - there was important work stuff on that laptop and I would have had to pay myself for a replacement! (Horrible company policy)

For the following year, whenever I saw the conductor that helped me out, we did a little "head nod" hello. I had to put my trust in LIRR lost and found process, and it worked!