Live at the America Line Depot
Howdy country friends, dear railroad fans, music listeners and influencers,
the weekend August 5.-6. I´m having open days at the America Line Depot Monument, Ebstorf, Germany, which is the last historically saved railroad depot at the America Line, the railway track,
that brought most of European migrants to the seaports booking their vessels to USA and Canada. Can you imagine, that over 4 million people were carried by rail some 600km at the times before WW1 from emigration depot Berlin Ruhleben to Bremen - Bremerhaven and Hamburg seaports, with all their families, baggage, and all they had, in freight train boxcars or even open goods cars? What a pain to get to America, don´t You agree? Just to try for a better life, having no chance to work or make a living in Germany, Poland, Russia, Balticum, Hungary, Austria and all the other states they came from...
OK, so at the Depot it´s to be a "migration museum", and if anybody of You knows some of Your families ancestry history connected to this part of America´s great history, and might be interested to share their stories, please mail me, I´d like to hear if they were successful or even struggling in the new world..
however, that is the story behind my song "America Line", and, if You are around to visit, You can ride this railroad with me and my music - best regards Yours Reb
