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Thread #132385 Message #2995903
Posted By: mayomick
29-Sep-10 - 06:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Wreck of the Royal Palm (train wreck song
Subject: RE: Lyrics or Title for old train wreck song
Thanks very much for the link Q . " Orders" were the standardized written instructions that governed train precedence on the track ,then, which makes sense . I suppose the dispatchers who gave these orders out must have been the equivalents of air traffic controllers in their day.
I'm sorry ,that Georgie thing I mentioned should have been Engine 143 .
"Along came the FFV the swiftest on the line
Running o'er the C&O road just twenty minutes behind
Running into Cevile head porters on the line
Receiving their strict orders from a station just behind