Union Pacific Yellow

What was that that just rolled by? Racing by on the railroad tracks beyond the trees in the shade with the sun barely rising over the Live Oak grove. Quieter than the usual freight trains with their rumbling and rattling and shaking ground. A flash of Union Pacific yellow followed by a dozen yellow passenger cars and a mail car and two (yes two) dome cars with their old fashioned domes sitting on top in the middle.

It was flying along the tracks, that Union Pacific passenger train, behind its two yellow Union Pacific engines, flying along and barely making a sound -- because it was empty. It must have been empty, because they don't run those trains on these tracks anymore.

What was it? Where was it going? Oh how I'd love to have been sitting in the dome cars on top and in the middle amid all that speeding-by yellow.

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