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Riding a disconnected siding in Illinois. I did this a lot, and was lucky not to get busted. Illinois had a lot of disconnected sidings for Route 66, and many of them were still usable. Here, for example, there were really three alignments of the road. There is the old, disconnected alignment, which my bike is on. There is the newer old Route 66 alignment, to the right, which is still active, and was the road I was supposed to be riding on. Interstate 55 is on the other side of the railroad tracks.

It is presumably on one of these disconnected sidings that I picked up a screw in my back tire that was a figurative thorn in my side and cost me about a day's worth of hassle and a lifetime's worth of aggravation. For you AMSers, ask Tim Hurlebaus about it.