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This tune started it all! I wrote this one as a parody of a new contract and emailed it to my BLE&t local chairman Sean McClintock. He loved it and sent it out to everybody on the CSX railroad. Soon I was getting comments and encouragement to make more tunes. I was promoted to engine service in 2005 and a new contract had just been negotiated.

The Hub agreement changed the service model into a hub model. Engineers would now be qualified into 4 home seniority districts. The old model where an engineer would only work one line, now would be changed to cover more territory.

The “Tex ass” is the old (LH&STL) the Louisville to Henderson and East St. Louis line, the “Shortline” being the Louisville to Cincinnati line, up to “Washington” was the Ol’ Monon Railroad that went through Southern Indiana on to East St Louis. The “Mainline” is where I work now, the original L&N… Louisville to Nashville.

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Hub Engineer
(Music For Modern Railroaders)

Sometimes they call me for the Tex ass,
Sometimes they call me for the Short-line,
Sometimes up to Washington, sometimes,
They call me for that ol’ Mainline!

(Chorus)

Over here, Over There!
And sometimes over there.
Over here, Over There,
I’m a hub Engineer.

I don’t know where I’m goin’! or where I’ve been!
or where I might go next- (CSX Calling…)
but I got four boards to get displaced from, so
Who’s cryin’ .. What the heck!

(Chorus)

618 miles of track,
not counting the return trip back.
The ups and the downs and the feet between…
Horray! Here we go pack a sack.

(Chorus)

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from I Got My Learnin' From The L&N, released July 14, 2017

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John Paul Wright Louisville, Kentucky

John Paul Wright is a community organizer, union organizer / Labor Singer and Djembe player. Working Locomotive Engineer and Folk Musician.. a man of many hats..

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