There ya go, rich, thanks. I was pretty sure it was a Carson Robinson song, but then that would have been a pretty safe bet.

Digging through the boxes, I just now came up with my old First Recorded Railroad Songs, Vernon Dalhart, Mark 56, 1978. Can't say as there is a whole lot to add, but here are the notes by Jim Walsh:

This is another Railroad Song with music by Carson Robison but the music was credited to an obscure poetaster, Cleburne C. Meeks. The story tells of the ambition of an elderly, gray-haired engineer, Billy Richardson, to die at the throttle of "old No. 3" or some other train with which he was familiar, instead of retiring and taking his pension. Billy got his wish. Traveling in the early morning through the West Virginia mountains, Billy vows to take No. 3 from Hinton into Huntington "right on time," but his train becomes involved in a collision at Montgomery, and Billy achieves his ambition by "going to glory" while still engaged in his beloved engineering job. Edison issued this record, paired with another Robison composition, "The Miami Storm," as a "Special" on October 25, 1926.

I wasn't sure what a poetaster was, so I had to look it up. I think I'm going to have trouble working that one into my everyday conversations!