This dinky forty-four tonner,
By now has bitten the dust…
Unless someone’s restored–
It would make it up most hills–just!
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Its original line to Springfield
Gave up the ghost years ago…
The company only got bigger
to lay union crew sizes low,
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It looks like this engine is working,
Dropping off a car on a spur…
Real nice to have favored memories
Through photos peering through history’s blur!
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–Jonathan Caswell