Pulling Into the Old Train Station In 1957

It had been a long train ride for me then and it had been fun I was coming home after Marine Corps training was finished and my tour had just begun So I had thirty days of leave to enjoy before I had to report for duty And this train ride home for me was just perfect to relax and enjoy the extreme beauty I boarded this train called "The El Capitan" a streamliner fully equiped for joy and ease In Los Angeles on that early November morning, full of good feelings and very pleased The scenery was fantastic throughout the entire trip as I watched from the upper dome It was a special car for observing with tables to play cards or eat as we hurried on home The landscape was ever changing and so many times I was fantastically in awe The mountains and the desert and the flat lands and the crops so much I still recall The old train stations where we stoped for a short time to let people off and on And the complete aura of it all including the pipe smoke, cigars, fragrances cologne The scenes were a wonder and the people were quite varried and seemed jolly My trip came to an end, we pulled into the old Union Station in Kansas City, " by golly" And my folks were there to greet me and we hugged and cried and loved and went home And it was a perfect ending to my trip that I had enjoyed so much in that dome