The“HeadingHome”Game

Directions: As the train heads back to the station in Downtown Duluth,seeifyoucanspottheseplacesalongtherailroadtracks.They arelistedinorderaswetravelbacktotheDepotstartinginLakeside.

Ding Ding Ding Ding – I stop traffic while your train goes by.

On the land side of the train: A big place of learning, built not in the west but here on the other side.

On the land and lake sides of the train: This is 40 feet under the track and flows through the rocks below, on a map its called “Tischer” but most people know its name from the family that owned Glensheen Mansion.

On the lake side of the train: It’s the largest body of fresh water in the world – can you see it yet? What is its “better” name?

On the lake side of the train: Stretching for over 7 miles from Canal Park to the Eastern edge of Duluth, it’s named after the lake right next to it.

Onthelakesideofthetrainandahead:Itwasdesigned by the same person who designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, but here in Duluth everyone knows it for going up and down.

On the lake side of the train: A large area of town named after its famous “boat passing lane.”

On the lake side of the train after tunnel: It’s too big and red to paddle with an OAR, that is why it can carry so much ORE. What is its name?

On the lake side of the train: It’s home to the UMD Bulldogs.

After stopping at the switch: Named after the person who donated money for its construction, the large tan building is where trains are fixed. What is its name?

Steve Goodman wrote this song while riding on the Illinois Central Railroad to visit his wife’s family. He recorded it in 1971. But Arlo Guthrie made it a hit three years later after Goodman sang him the song in a Chicago bar after first agreeing to buy Guthrie a beer. Arlo said he’d listen to the song only as long as it took him to finish the beer.

Complete this Glen Miller hit lyric….”Dinner in the Diner, Nothing could be finer than to have your ham and eggs in ____________.”

In what Doobie Brothers Hit recording did Tom Johnston, the song’s lyricist, see…”Miss Lucy down along the tracks, lost her home and her family and she won’t be coming back.”

This hit song by Tommy Hart and Bobby Boyce was about a real town in Nevada called Clarksdale, but the name was changed to a similar sounding city in Tennessee because it was home to the 101st Airborne Division that fought in the Vietnam War and in the song a young woman is told to take the last train there. Name the song. (HINT – it was a 1966 hit for “The Monkees.”)

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In1978anadvertisingfirminOmahawroteapromotional song for this still famous railroad, also based in Omaha, which had the following lyrics. Fill in the blank with the name of the railroad. “We’re a million miles of history, a shinin’ in the sun, we’re the _ _ and our story’s just begun.”