Larry Penn wrote and does many songs like those being talked about too. Songs like his "KATE SHELLEY". Tells the story of the young girl who took her dad's old railroad lantern and walked across a high long railroad bridge over the Des Moines River in a driving rain in Iowa to warn the Midnight Mail Train that the bridge over Honey Creek had been washed out. She saved hundreds of lives and became a true hero. I believe the railroad workers union is named the Kate Shelley Local to this day. The only rail union named for a woman. I think this happened back in the 1880s---but I might be wrong.

Art Thieme