Morpheus
I started this subject when I lived in Kansas City, and hadn’t completed it to my satisfaction by the time that I move to Oklahoma. So when I got settled in Oklahoma I continued on it and just could not get it to a point where I liked it. So I destroyed it, and started on something else instead. The problem, I eventually decided, was that my colors had been all wrong, and so finally I tried it again.This idea had been traveling around in my head for several years. I don’t remember if I was living in Chicago or in Kansas City when I first conceived of it, but either place is likely, since I know that I thought of it while laying in bed on some night listening to trains run. In Chicago it was the el train that could be heard in the city, and in Kansas City I could hear the freight trains from the West Bottoms all night from wherever I was sleeping. Even from my current home in South Oklahoma City, when everything was still at night, I could hear the trains on the Norman track, and this possibly kept the idea brewing in my mind until I made this second attempt. But the sound of night trains, which only seemed to be there when I was in bed, is what gave me the idea of a train that carried me off to sleep at night.
Of course, this isn’t any simple train, but more like a train-headed angel or something, who pulls a sleeping man in his bed by a wagon. Morpheus was the Greek god of sleep, and so that is the identity that I have ascribed to this train-man who drags people off to sleep at night.