abstract:"Slow Train" is a song written by Bob Dylan that first appeared on his 1979 album Slow Train Coming. In the United States, it was released as the follow up single to "Gotta Serve Somebody.
Day, as the nation's first black president was being sworn in for a second time, was a reminder to all of us that at times equality can feel like a slowtrain coming ... but we cannot grow weary because it is coming.
Just 20 seconds elapsed between the time the first train came to rest and the moment it was struck by the westbound train, whose engineer had deployed emergency brakes to slow the train.