Here's an oldie that I'd seen along time ago and had lost track of. Came
across it late last evening while perusing an old issue of RAILROAD
PUT THE HOGGER IN THE CRUMMY
Let me sit on the right-hand side
A-hold of the throttle and Johnson bar,
And make our rough wild hogger ride
At the other end in the old way car.
Just watch him try to stay in the hack
When I start the train with the air and
the slack
And hear him holler when his head I drove
Right in behind the crummy stove,
and as the train goes into the sag,
Knock him out with the slack in that drag.
And let him lay there on the floor,
Afraid to stand up, for fear he'd get more.
I'd head right in on the longest track,
and cut her off a long way back;
When the hogger walks in, to him I'd say:
"Well how was the ride you got today?"
B. H. Terry
RAILROAD Dec. 1941
I especially liked the "head right in on the longest track, and cut her off a
long way back".
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