He had been a government lawyer and a congressional staffer, focusing on railroad issues; the ringtone on his phone was the choo-choo of a train.
The choo-choo cars are getting ready to choo-choo right along to the next station.
But the choo-choo hasn't got any engineer, an' we have to push it, an' it isn't fair for ticket-agents to do so much work besides their own.