The boys’ villagers living on Mäkelänkatu ran trains on trains, built ferries in a flooded swamp and secretly plastered at the Olympic Village construction site. Police became interested in the boys as they jumped on a freight train en route to the Soviet Union.
“Mamero leaves, old ice! ”
The mocking of the friends echoed at the age of ten Timo Puumalainen in his ears as he prepared to jump.
The freight train had just left the Pasila railway yard and approached Käpylä station. Puumalainen knew that soon there would be a flat place on the track where you could try to jump.
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