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dedication

If you’ve not read anything by Medium author Dr John Frederick Rose (at ease with your red pen, there’s no period after ‘Dr’ per his profile) — I highly recommend.

Doctor Rose works through some sort of magic process to turn the data and nomenclature of locomotive engines into verse — a strong alloy of history and memory.

An excerpt from the work linked below:

©2023 Dr John Frederick Rose (full poem linked below)

2–8–2 USRA Light Mikado.

These shots are for you, Doctor Rose. The rolling stock coming through my town doesn’t look much like the historic trains you’ve memorialized.

Your poetry, however, has changed the way I see things that run on rails — and those who ride them on voyages without end.