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Thread #7526   Message #45544
Posted By: Art Thieme
15-Nov-98 - 09:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Wabash Cannonball
Subject: RE: Wabash Cannonball
Hey, Harp, hello!

I forgot to mention that Bruce U.Utah Phillips rode the LAST ride of the Wab. Cannonball---in the 1970s I believe. By then it was on a different railroad---not the Wash Road. He got off the train just below Champaign, Illinois---in the town of Tolono. On one of his Philo Lps he did "Wab.Cannonball" in tandem with his own song, called "Tolono"---about the sadness of that last run/ride on the Wabash Cannonball...

Art