Refresh. Can anyone come up with any other corrections to Gene's transcription of Doc Watson's version of "Wreck of the 1262"?

-Joe-

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This is what I hear:

Here's Doc Watson's version...

THE WRECK OF THE 1262

Recorded by Doc Watson/Trad.

She'd just left the point at Kittanning,
The freight number 1262;
And on down the mountains she traveled,
So brave were the men in her crew.

The engineer pulled at the whistle,
For the brakes wouldn't work when applied;
And the brakeman climbed out on the car top,
For he knew what that whistle had cried.

With all of the strength that God gave him,
He tied in those brakes with a prayer;
But the train went right on down that mountain,
Her whistle still piercing the air.

She traveled at sixty an hour,
Gaining speed ev'ry foot of the way;
And then with a crash it was over,
And there on the track the freight lay.

It's not the amount of the damage,
Or the value of what the wreck cost;
It's the sad scene they found in the cabin,
Where the lives of two brave men were lost.

They found them at their post in the wreckage,
Where they died when the engine had fell;
The engineer still held the whistle,
And the fireman still clung to the bell.

Now this story is told of a freight train,
But it should be a warning to all;
We need to be prepared ev'ry moment,
For we can never tell when He'll call.

Source: DOC WATSON ON STAGE/VSD 9/10

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The only things I corrected were substituting female pronouns for male when referring to the train. I agree with the poster above that the name of the town sure doesn't sound like "Kitanning." It's sounds like Doc is singing "Chicannie," or something like that, but I think he just got it wrong. All the versions of the song in Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail say Kitanning, a town 79 miles from from Altoona, Pennsylvania.