The Wellsboro and Corning I never,
Got a chance to visit ever…
On You tube I see
How it used to be,
Before it changed altogether!
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Tioga Central trains we ran,
Ended up out there by plan…
We lost our line
The new owner inclined
Using our equipment, which was canned.
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Since those eventful days,
The railroad has changed in many ways…
New owners took over
fixing up track that was poor,
Hauling stuff for the new fracking craze!
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Renamed the Corning-Wellsboro,
Railroad poised for “tomorrow”…
Became a heavy-hauling line
Which was willing to take time,
To run Tioga Central with no quarrel.
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My friends who ran with me have scattered,
It was fun for as long as it mattered…
The equipment sold–
Some of us are too old
To run it if wanted or flattered!
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Way out near Corning, New York,
Too long a commute to work…
But as Youtube plays
I remember those days,
Now “running” N scale on cork!
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–Jonathan Caswell
(The author was a volunteer Trainman when the Tioga Central Scenic railroad ran out of first Flemingville, New York, later out of Owego, NY—the connection of that branch line with Conrail.)
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