Music City Star Sightings

We've been seeing the Music City Star coming through Hermitage and Mt. Juliet on tests recently. It looks very shiny and new. One day there were 2 passenger cars attached and recently we saw 3 cars attached. Hopefully they'll actually be able to get this going on time.

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