Jason Evans
New Member
High over the roadway
Sliced into mountainside
We never knew it was there
Ticker-tack ties rumble
On washboard ground
Rusting rails screech
From blue jays
Lost in the trees
We drive
Our iron pace rolling
With spark bursts
In flame red maples
The gaze of another age
Sweeps across the valley
And puffs the sky full
Of coal smoke angels
(O&W Road, Buckingham Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. This road was once the rail bed of the Ontario & Western Railroad, Scranton Branch. When it was liquidated in the 1950's, the O&W's anachronistic operations earned it the nicknames "Old Woman" and "Old & Weary." It now enjoys a cult-like following.)