The woman famous for that fingering style was Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten — a folksinger best known for the song “Freight Train,” written in 1904 when she was just 11 years old. Cotten’s ...

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their ... As tracks began to snake their way across the continent during the 1800s, songs were composed to hail the coming of the ...

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their ... As tracks began to snake their way across the continent during the 1800s, songs were composed to hail the coming of the ...