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Thread #3441 Message #2169974
Posted By: catspaw49
12-Oct-07 - 08:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Wreck of the 1262/1256
Subject: RE: REQ: Wreck of the 1262
IF you can Jonathan, post the lyrics here.
We have two very different songs which have only the fact of telling a tale of a wreck in common.....a similar number, but that's about it.
I think maybe in the 1256 song which Gene posted, Clifton Fort is probably Clifton Forge.....possibly misheard. Clifton Forge was a part of the Chessie (C&O) for many years.
The other, the 1262 sung by Doc, takes place on the Pennsy somewhere around Altoona, PA and the famous Horseshoe Curve just to the west whose location is Kittanning Point where there used to be a station.