As Traffic Sat Frozen Behind Flashing Railroad Gates and a Freight Train Thundered Closer Every Second, Drivers Could Only Watch in Confusion as a Tattooed Biker Refused to Leave the Tracks While Protecting Something Hidden Beneath His Jacket That No One Was Supposed to Notice

PART 1 — The Crossing Where Time Stopped

Tattooed Biker on Railroad Tracks was the phrase reporters would later repeat endlessly, but in the beginning, it was simply an uncomfortable mystery unfolding under a gray Colorado sky. Late afternoon traffic crawled along Highway 62 outside the small American town of Briar Hollow, where commuters were used to delays caused by freight trains cutting …