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Jean Shepherd's America

Season 1 · Episode 3

...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West

0.029mApril 25, 1971

While rumbling across Wyoming aboard a Union Pacific railroad car, Shep recalls a previous trip during his World War II Army days when he pulled KP duty on a troop train.

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Episodes

Episode 1The Phantom of the Open Hearth Lives -- Somewhere in Indiana
Episode 2...One Man's Version of Heaven Is a Super Howard Johnson's with 28 Flavors and No Lines for the Rest Room
Episode 3...The End of an Era -- Riding the 'City of Los Angeles' on Its Last Journey Across the American West
Episode 4A Bunch of the Boys Were Whooping It Up at the Malamute Saloon
Episode 5There's More to Life Than a Hostess Twinkie
Episode 6And the Bad Guys Are Back on the Shore, Shaking Their Fists
Episode 7The Perpetual Swish of Windshield Wipers Is the Soundtrack of Our Lives
Episode 8It Won't Always Be This Way
Episode 9...From Its Golden, Ice-cold Depths Come the Echos of Lost Battles, the Sound of Ancient Victories, the Noise of a Million Ball Games
Episode 10I Might Even Snag One for Old Ahab Himself
Episode 11When There's No Place to Go But Up
Episode 12Like All Great Inner-Tube Specialists, He Finally Made the Classic Mistake
Episode 13Make School or Die