Rails or Roads?

Sky takes Kaze to one side and says, "Listen you seems to have an enlightenmental aptitude for what's going down, whereas I am a gambler who wears brass knuckles. Whenever youse has gots any idears about what our missing leader would be wanting us to do as a team, you tell me, and don't be shy. Because I aint never lead nobody except a boy scout patrol once, and then the senior patrol leader found out about the gambling ring I was running using merit badges for chips, which gots me thrown out of the scouts. See?

"St. Louis, Missouri, is a significant nexus for food distribution, primarily beef cattle. The American rail system has the characteristic--in this case a virtue--of somewhat chaotic scheduling. A major road, such as that which would lead to St. Louis and we would therefore travel, must many times encounter such locomotives and their trucks as the lines would logically parallel. Should the opportunity present itself, I would suggest we avail ourselves of this inconspicuous transport--although our clothes..." she glances at the snappy if travel-worn garments "...would ideally be exchanged before boarding."

"An alternative would be to simply slip aboard an ordinary carrier---but whatever we do, we should certainly 'ditch' this vehicle."

Everyone's Grimnoir rings buzz, in a manner familiar to owners of cell phones but pretty unusual in 1934. Unless you work on the railroad and feel the rails buzz when a train ten miles down the track hits the brakes -- it's said to really make your teeth rattle.

Anyhow. This is the signal for someone to use the communication spell to receive an incoming message. It takes a bit of magic to do, so anyone who's tapped out for now can't do it.

Does anyone sketch the spell in the dirt, or on a racing form, or something? Or not? You're pretty sure you're supposed to answer Grimnoir messages.