Merle Haggard once leased this dome car, the Silver Palace.
Haggard may have leased the thing for his doomed whistle-stop tour, a rolling Farm Aid campaign to drum up support for the country’s struggling farmers. The timing certainly tracks: Haggard took possession of the shiny car in 1985, the same year his train (dubbed the American) was set to take off from Bakersfield, California, with two hundred musicians, including Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, farm group officials, and members of the press.
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