merry-go-round

There's no time for happiness today

Got a date for lunch, a plastic tray

Got a deal to sign her life away

Got an early grave she's gotta make

And we are all insane

Hold on

Slow down

You'll never get to heaven on this merry-go-round […]

Some of the desirable characteristics of the "Merry-go-round" railway described in this article are found in the Tyne Dock-Consett iron ore traffic of the N.E.R. The ore is carried in high capacity wagons, run in trains of fixed formation. A triangle at the Consett works enables each train, complete with its locomotive, to be turned and sent back without any remarshalling after unloading to Tyne Dock. At the quayside, the wagons are mechanically loaded as a train and at Consett they run directly on to a gantry above unloading bunkers; they have air-operated bottom-discharge doors worked from the locomotive.

Russell kept the merry-go-round moving with an RBI single that advanced Henderson to third.