Way back when (like early 70s) I occasionally rode my bike from college in NH to VA for summer vacation. I once altered my normal route to cross the Hudson at Kingston rather than my usual crossing at Poughkeepsie. Wrong! I got onto busy roads and decided to abort the trip and continue to DC on the train.
In those days I was riding a stripped down racing bike with sew-up tires so when I boarded the NYC bound train at Rhinecliff I carried the bike on with wheels removed and stuffed it into the overhead storage bin. In NYC when I was preparing to transfer to the train for DC an angry conductor asked "Where did you get on?"
"Rhinecliff", I replied
"Well you wouldn't have gotten on with that bike had I seen you!", yelled the conductor.
I put the wheels back on, rode from Grand Central to Penn Station and repeated the carry on for the train to DC!