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Lighter	Story Behind Wabash Cannonball & Claxton (66* d)	RE: Story Behind Wabash Cannonball & Claxton	30 Dec 24
The original sheet music to Roff's "Great Rock Island Route!" (1882) is visible here: https://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/057/135 The "Wabash Cannonball" was an actual train of the period: Chicago Tribune, Feb. 12, 1881: "The Wabash 'cannonball train' was three hours late [owing to a blizzard]." St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (Feb. 18, 1882): "Charles Ogden...arrived yesterday morning on the Wabash Cannonball." The latest mention I've found of the real train is from 1904.

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