I well remember, as I have already recorded on the "Big Bill Campbell & his Rocky Mountain Rhythm" thread, this song in its "fast express came roaring at 90 miles an hour, The snow was frozen on the windowpane" version, in Rocky Mountain Rhythm on BBC Radio in the 1930s. It left a great impression on me; the line above, followed by "And as he was a-steering, he said a silent prayer For the LRCBTT", have lived with me ever since ~~ among those discrete extracts which come to mind in moments of contemplation to this day ~ 70+ years later. Whether it was a version identical to the one above, in which the brakeman takes his loved fiancée for a ride and she is killed, or what the surrounding details were, I can't call to mind. It's just the bits I quote above which remain intact in my aged memory.

~Michael~