If you should enter Uncialle's stronghold, you will come upon the Dead Dudette driving her truck. The truck is known as The Express, a 1948 half-ton stake bed Ford pickup. The Express was purchased new by Uncialle's grandfather as part of a fleet of service trucks for the ski resort, Sun Valley, Idaho.

For decades, the Express met the Union Pacific Railroad Ketchum spur line twice each day, ferrying the baggage of such stars as Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Betty Grable, Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Stewart Granger, and many others between the railhead and the glamorous Sun Valley resort less than two miles away. When Uncialle's grandfather retired, he retired the Express. Even though The Express had been driven less than 60,000 miles, there was no work for it at Sun Valley. The Ketchum spur railroad line had been closed down, and the very depot razed to the ground. The Express became Gramps' trout-fishing rig, until years later, when he gave it to Uncialle. The Dead Dudette took up residence in the Express nearly 8 years ago. She is always there. I'm sure the Dead Dudette would be glad to take YOUR baggage to the vanished station. Perhaps she would find Marilyn standing on the snowy platform at Ketchum, shivering in her fur coat and open-toed high heels, waiting for the phantom train.

The Express is still roadworthy, though it is seldom called into use. As spiders spin webs across the windshield, The Express sits still, at peace with its silent driver, on the north side of Uncialle's stronghold, between the Twin Blue Spruces and the expedition tent of the famed Egyptologist, Harold Carter.