Chugga Chugga Choo Choo!

"Here your trip begins,
at the depot, on the platform.


The people here, the passengers,
have packed and shipped and sold their things,
all their things, everything.


They have their tickets for a trip of a week,
through days and nights,
across the wide country,
down to the sea.


Look for the train
that will take you,
the first train of the trip.


Listen for the engine,
for the mighty locomotive."



It is the summer of 1869. The first, newly-built American railroad awaits the locomotives, which set off fr...