Wrong Train Blues

All Aboard!!!.

The other day, I managed to get on the wrong Caltrain train at the Mountain View station. It was the first time I had ever done that. But as the trains get spaced closer and closer together, it was bound to happen sooner or later I suppose. Right around 6pm, there's a 5:58, a 6:03, and a 6:09 and I need to catch the 6:09. Except the schedule lists them as 6:03, 5:58, 6:09. The 5:58 is an express, it left San Jose later, but gets to Mountain View sooner which is why they are listed out of order. But of course I didn't know that at first glance. I just saw 5:58 and 6:09, I knew the 5:58 had already come and gone, and a train pulled in at 6:05 so I jumped on. When that train rolled right on past my stop I went and found a conductor. He clued me in that the number of the train is listed on the engine (or first car) on the back of what looks like a big truck side-view mirror. And that's the only place you can tell.