Question: Who wrote the song that follows the same notes as the folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late 19th century by The Carter Family, but its lyrics eulogise trucks and truckers rather than trains ?
Context: Williamsport Historic District is a national historic district at Williamsport, Washington County, Maryland, United States.  The district consists of the historic core of this town.  Almost 20 percent of the buildings in the district date from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  They are generally of log or brick construction until the second quarter of the 19th century.  The town grew with the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and railroads, which resulted in prominent late 19th century Italianate and Queen Anne style buildings for residential and commercial purposes.  Slightly less than 60 percent of the buildings date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. An armoured train is a railway train protected with armour.  Armoured trains usually include railroad cars armed with artillery and machine guns.  They were mostly used during the late 19th and early 20th century, when they offered an innovative way to quickly move large amounts of firepower.  Most countries discontinued their use – road vehicles became much more powerful and offered more flexibility, and train tracks proved too vulnerable to sabotage as well as to attacks from the air.  However, the Russian Federation used improvised armoured trains in the Second Chechen War of 1999–2009. "The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late 19th century.  Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.  All subsequent versions contain a variation of the chorus: "Old Blue" (also known as "Old Dog Blue") is an old folk song, believed to have originated from the minstrel shows of the late 19th century.  A 1928 version by Jim Jackson, entitled "Old Dog Blue", appears on the "Anthology of American Folk Music" album.  Since this early recording, a number of covers and variations of this song have been recorded. "The Maid Freed from the Gallows" is one of many titles of a centuries-old folk song about a condemned maiden pleading for someone to buy her freedom from the executioner.  In the collection of ballads compiled by Francis James Child in the late 19th century, it is indexed as Child Ballad number 95; 11 variants, some fragmentary, are indexed as 95A to 95K.  In the Roud Folk Song Index it is number 144.  The ballad exists in a number of folkloric variants, from many different countries, and has been remade in a variety of formats.  For example, it was recorded in 1939 as "The Gallis Pole" by folk singer Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter, and - the most famous version - in 1970 as "Gallows Pole", an arrangement of the Fred Gerlach version by English rock band Led Zeppelin, on the album "Led Zeppelin III". "Cumberland Gap" is an Appalachian folk song that likely dates to the latter half of the 19th century and was first recorded in 1924.  The song is typically played on banjo or fiddle, and well-known versions of the song include instrumental versions as well as versions with lyrics.  A version of the song appeared in the 1934 book, "American Ballads and Folk Songs", by folk song collector John Lomax.  Woody Guthrie recorded a version of the song at his Folkways sessions in the mid-1940s, and the song saw a resurgence in popularity with the rise of bluegrass and the American folk music revival in the 1950s.  In 1957, the British musician Lonnie Donegan had a No. 1 UK hit with a skiffle version of "Cumberland Gap". Croatian tamburitza (tam•bu•rit•za) is a folk song played with a tambura (cousins with Russian balalaika and the Italian mandolin) and is accompanied with a dance.  The origin is most commonly thought to be introduced from the Turks by way of Bosnia between the 14th and 16th century.  Although, others believe that the tambura was introduced by the Persians.  It was not until the 19th century that tamburitza gained popularity during several nationalist movements against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.  Many societies such as Croatian, Slovak and Czech, used national folk songs and dance as an "expression of their national identity".  During this time, the first Croatian tamburitza ensemble was created by Pajo Kolarić in 1847.  Also, during early 20th century ethnomusicologist Professor Vinko Žganec, began to write down Croatian folk songs which in the past were not written, but passed down from generation to generation. Hotaru no Hikari (蛍の光 , meaning "Glow of a firefly") is a Japanese song incorporating the tune of Scottish folk song "Auld Lang Syne" with completely different lyrics by Chikai Inagaki, first introduced in a collection of singing songs for elementary school students in 1881 (Meiji 14).  The swapping of lyrics without substantial change to the music is known as contrafactum.  The words describe a series of images of hardships that the industrious student endures in his relentless quest for knowledge, starting with the firefly’s light, which the student uses to keep studying when he has no other light sources.  It is commonly heard during graduation ceremonies and at the end of the school day.  Many stores and restaurants play it to usher customers out at the end of a business day.  On the very popular Japanese New Year's Eve TV show, NHK "Kōhaku Uta Gassen", it has become a tradition for all the performers to sing "Hotaru no Hikari" as the last song.  Another Western song reworked in the same period (late 19th century) and also used at graduation ceremonies is "Aogeba Tōtoshi". Ennis Friary (colloquially also known as Ennis Abbey) was a Franciscan friary in the town of Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.  It was established in the middle of the 13th century by the ruling O'Brien dynasty who supported it for most of its existence.  Following the suppression of the monasteries in the 16th century, the friary continued to function for a while despite the loss of its lands.  In the early 17th century, the buildings were handed over to the Church of Ireland as a place of worship.  It was used as such until the late 19th century.  After the construction of a new Church of Ireland building, the friary fell into ruin.  Managed by the Office of Public Works since the late 19th century, it was formally returned to the Franciscan Order in 1969. "Big Wheel Cannonball" (title sometimes given as Big Wheel Cannon Ball) is a song written by Vaughn Horton.  It follows the same notes as the folk song "Wabash Cannonball" by The Carter Family, but its lyrics eulogise trucks and truckers rather than trains.
Answer: Vaughn Horton.