HERBICIDE TROUBLE IN N SCALE
(Tune: THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS)
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I bought a model railroad car
For the memoriy
Of a New York shortline
Meaningful to me…
And then I found out that
The one shipper it had
Produced a herbicide that was
Found environmentally bad!
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I bought an N scale
“Stauffer Chemical” railroad car,
But am afraid to run it
Don’t want to start a war..,.
N scale protesters are as fierce
As the full-sized ones I’ve heard,
I wouldn’t want my model folk
To say those nasty words!
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No wonder in the seventies
That railroad went away,
For environmental damages
Someone should always pay…
If they served a dirty coal mine
They might still have a prayer,
‘Cause the latest in smoke scrubbers
Might just have saved the air!
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Oh, the Skaneateles Shortline
Was a favorite railroad,
Down to one last shipper
Their existance was owed…
But that shipper produced herbicide
Found emvironmentally bad,
The only reminder I could buy
May get scale people mad!
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I may just reletter the car
To use it for flyash,
Proper use of recycling
No scale people can bash…
Or maybe it will sit it out
In lonely display,
Or it’ll run to an incinerator
To burn the stuff away.
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–Jonathan Caswell
(ebay)
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By the Mighty Mumford 