Count To A Million Thread!

5643 = 33 x 11 x 19

With so much left undone

5644 = 22 × 17 × 83

Remember me to my love,

5645 = 5 x 1129

I know I’ll miss her.

5646

Hmmm…

5647, prime. We’ll find the next one four units down the road.

And now for something completely different. Your turn?

5648

Riding on the City of New Orleans

5649 = 2 x 7 x 269

Illinois Central, Monday morning rail

5650 = 2 × 52 × 113

15 cars and 15 restless riders

5651, prime.

3 [prime too] conductors, 25 [not prime] sacks of mail

5652

All along the southbound odyssey

5653, prime again. They often come in pairs, separated by two units.

the train pulls out of Kankakee

5654 = 2 x 11 x 257

Rolls along past houses, farms and fields

5655

Passin’ trains that have no name

[Fun fact: a train that has no name is a freight train. Passenger trains all have names: the City of New Orleans, the Twentieth Century Limited, the Canadian, the Ocean …]

5656 = 23 x 7 x 101

and freight yards full of old black men

[I don’t know whether your fun fact is true in Europe too, would fit. Here passenger planes have names, wonder if cargo planes have names too; I don’t know, I have never flown in one.]

5657, another prime

And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles

[Well, if you had, that would have made it a passenger plane, no?]

5658

Good morning America how are you?

[I guess I wasn’t clear. It’s the passenger train routes in North America that have names: the City of New Orleans runs between Chicago and New Orleans, the Twentieth Century Limited runs between New York and Chicago, the Canadian runs between Toronto and Vancouver, and so on. The locomotives have no names, only numbers, but if they’re hauling a passenger train between Toronto and Vancouver, then they are part of the Canadian.

We don’t tend to give individual airliners in North America names, though there could be exceptions. At any rate, air routes don’t have names here, in the way that passenger train routes do.]

5659, another prime, or 5.659 × 103

Said don’t you know me, I’m your native son

5660 = 22 x 5 x 283

I’m the train they call the City of New Orleans

[Ah, I see. Things are different here, plane- train- and routewise]

Indeed.

5661 = 32 x 17 x 37

I’ll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done

5662 = 2 x 19 x 149

Dealing card games, with the old men in the club car