Short film of Al Jardine's model train set with narration by Johnny Cash | dG1fQ2xWSTRiSjQ1MzA
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00:03 [train whistle]
00:06 You know, there's nothing that stirs my imagination
00:09 like the sound of a steam locomotive.
00:12 [train whistle]
00:15 That lonesome whistle cutting through the night
00:18 and that column of black smoke and steam
00:20 throwing shadows across the land.
00:23 When I was a boy, the trains ran by my house
00:27 and they carried with them a promise that somewhere down the track
00:30 anything would be possible.
00:33 And you know, for some reason it was awfully important to me
00:37 that when I waved at the engineer, that he waved back at me.
00:40 [train whistle]
00:43 The railroads were an important part in the building of America.
00:47 As a matter of fact, America didn't really begin to grow
00:50 until the railroads came along.
00:53 We were a little country with a toehold just on the east coast
00:56 and that big dark wilderness out there waiting
00:59 and it was the trains that took us there.
01:02 [train whistle]
01:07 [silence]