Not American or anything…

…but it seems to me that this is a love song to a lost America. Sons of Pullman porters and sons of engineers would be kids getting a ride on their fathers' workplace. Freight yards full of old black men - maybe people got off the train where they worked and had a bit of a social life in the freight yards…

But the heart of this wonderful song is the journey across America in a train that's soon going to cease to be, a train where ordinary people travel and work.