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City of the Rails

Fans Calling: A Bonus Episode of City of the Rails

City of the Rails

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, History, Places & Travel

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

City of the Rails passes a million downloads! Cause for a celebration, and a chance to thank all of you who sent so much love. To mark this big achievement, we made a bonus episode featuring just some of the hundreds of voicemails we got from people who adored the show (and also a few from some who didn't like it).

Big question: Where's Season 2? We didn't get renewed for a second season, but we're trying to find a podcast home for the next chapter in this story: The Railroad Murders.

And we're still working on the railroad. Check out Danelle's investigative work with a team from ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/series/train-country

Want to stay in touch? Find us @flipturnpods and keep an eye on danellemorton.com. Have a question or comment? Leave us a voicemail at ‪(707) 653-0339‬. We’re keeping the lines open just for you.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

And yeah, look, just that I'd give you a ring from Australia where I've been listening to that fantastic story of yours and your beautiful writing.

0:10.0

I've enjoyed it enormously and it reminds me so much at a time when I was on the road lost in America.

0:17.6

I did ride a number of trains and sat in a number of boxcars along the way.

0:22.1

Anyway, I thought I'd just play you one of the songs that I used to play a lot when I was around.

0:28.0

Anyway here at cards. I hear a call. Thank you Australian fan for that great harmonica solo that brings us back to the city of the rails which just

0:45.2

passed a million downloads.

0:47.4

One million amazing.

0:49.4

In honor of this we decided to celebrate you guys, the audience.

0:54.0

Hundreds of thousands of you were drawn to this unusual story,

0:57.5

said in a world most of you had seen, but never thought about.

1:01.0

You left us some incredible voicemails. I'm D'Almorton and this is our bonus

1:06.0

episode to thank the fans of the City of the Rails.

1:10.0

Hi this is Dino. Hey I just finished with what I know is the final episode of City of the

1:17.4

Rails and holy crap I used to live in Colton.

1:22.5

You know, I have been over that Rancho off-ramp

1:25.4

and always looked down and saw encampments of tents

1:28.2

and people hanging out down there.

1:29.5

And I'm like, oh, geez, poor homeless people,

1:32.0

and then, you know, it all clicked and the same with the pepper

1:35.8

street you just enlighten me to the Colton scene which I knew nothing, absolutely nothing about, man, I just could not stop listening to your

1:49.6

podcast.

1:50.6

You know, 2.30 in the morning, I'm up, I got a little more. I got to hear I got to get you addicted absolutely got addicted

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