About a half hour after getting off the train, she realized that her ring was missing. She burst into tears, Peckham said, frantically called the commuter rail’s lost and found department, then raced back to North Station.

Katelyn Peckham took off the ring while seated on the Haverhill train this morning to North Station. She works as a media planner at Conover Tuttle Pace, a few blocks from the station.

After a 25-year-old Reading woman accidentally left her engagement ring on a commuter rail train, a couple of train conductors helped to find the family heirloom.

She’d had the ring since May, when she got engaged. The diamond had belonged to her mother.


Peckham was sure it was gone forever.

“I was just thinking how disappointed everyone would be in me,” Peckham said. “You just don’t lose things like this.”

But about an hour after the ring went missing, as Peckham checked the floors of all the trains stopped at the station with the help of a few conductors, one conductor called to her from down the aisle of the train.

“Are you looking for this?” he asked.

It was the ring. Peckham burst into tears all over again.

“I felt sick to my stomach when it was over,” Peckham said. “It could have been the worst day of my life.”

Martine Powers can be reached at mpowers@globe.com.