Planes, Trains, and Auto-rickshaws

I went to buy a train ticket to the nearest major city with a airport today. Here's how you buy a ticket in India. You fill out a form with the info for your trip. You go to a token window where the lady stamps your form and gives you a number. then you wait until your number comes up and go to the right window. Then you buy the ticket. My "token" number was 599 and they were on 300 when I got there. Needless to say I left to go through a travel agent. Now I'm number 67 on the waiting list for a train that's in 1 week. I hope I don't have to fly from our little airport here or something messed up like that. I had heard before I came that India's train system was one of the best in the world. No, I think they said it was the biggest. Someone doesn't want me to leave here. If I can't get on that plane to Lativa on the 16th then you may hear of the first white guy to sacrifice himself to Vishnu in the Ganges....