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City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Feb 7
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riversedge
(75,240 posts)1. 'Good Morning America-How are yah?'
Maybe this should be the Dem theme?? Each day ask this question-over and over!!
marble falls
(64,974 posts)2. My grandfather was Chief Light and Signal Engineer for the Nickle Plate and N&W, his father was a gandy dancer ...
... on the Pennsylvania, great uncle was the Yard Master for the Erie Lackawanna in Akron , two cousins one a trackman and the other a brakeman one of the east west roads in Ohio.
I rode on the last steam locomotive run between Chicago and Cleveland in 1956.
This song makes me cry.
By the author of this song -
riversedge
(75,240 posts)3. You have a wonderful family history.
marble falls
(64,974 posts)4. Oh, you don't know! My grandfather's mother's mother was an Adams. Known as the "Mad Adamses" family ...
... in that part of Kentucky. I have photos of her mother and father. They look so "normal", it's a bit creepy.