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The wreck inspired a famous railroad ballad, which was the focus of a convoluted copyright lawsuit but became seminal in the genre of country music.
My grandfather was one of the first to reach the scene of the wreck.



Now there's a story . I remember hearing and playing that tune on the old windup Victrola record player which sat in the Steam family hunting shack. Great memories, my dad recorded many of the old tunes onto cassette tapes, which is fortunate since the Victrola is now in the local museum, and the legendary steam family long gone

Hewas goin' down the grade making ninety miles an hour
When his whistle began to a scream
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle
And scalded to death by the steam

jh

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