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C&NWRR, towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst, Ill., at the Proviso yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump, Melrose Park (near Chicago), Ill. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• comfortable stove said:

  Likely story... It's actually the Freight Yard Wurlitzer Organ. ["Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga choo-choo?"]