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1940 Elgin

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All along the southbound odyssey, the train pulls out of Kankakee, rolling passed houses farms and fields.View attachment 744640 View attachment 744641 View attachment 744642 View attachment 744643 View attachment 744644 View attachment 744645 View attachment 744646 The sons of Pullman Porters, and the sons of Engineers, ride their fathers magic carpets made of steel.
Mothers with their babes a sleep, rockin to the gentle beat, and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
I love that!
 
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Jimmie Rodgers. The yodeling brakeman.

They just don't write songs like that anymore.
It's kind of sad, but just like the disappearing railroad blues, we're experiencing the disappearing song writers blues.
Hardly a great song has been written in the last twenty five years.
Just my humble opinion of course.
 
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