Southern railroad songs are often treated as a musical celebration of trains: their speed, their whistles, and the power of a locomotive moving through the landscape. The cultural connection is in the songs and in the life the songs come from. The South had more single-track, light-rail, and newly built lines than the Northeast in the decades after the Civil...
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