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Post by bigblow69 on Jan 22, 2015 20:53:54 GMT -8
Mine is the Wreck of Old 97.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2015 21:11:43 GMT -8
Shocking Blue - Never Marry a Railroad Man
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Post by bigblow69 on Jan 22, 2015 21:45:34 GMT -8
Shocking Blue - Never Marry a Railroad Man I can't say I've heard this till now. But love the 60's 70's style. |
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Post by bigblow69 on Jan 22, 2015 21:46:22 GMT -8
Shocking Blue - Never Marry a Railroad Man I can't say I've heard this till now. But love the 60's 70's style. Awesome added to favorites. |
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Post by bnsf971 on Jan 23, 2015 7:51:44 GMT -8
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Post by mlehman on Jan 23, 2015 8:44:20 GMT -8
Terry, Great minds think alike. I was going to post up Neil Young, "Southern Pacific," and thought I'd check out your link to see what it was first...  |
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Post by calzephyr on Jan 24, 2015 6:47:38 GMT -8
City of New Orleans!
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Post by mrsocal on Jan 24, 2015 11:53:47 GMT -8
Favorite... dam so meany. I love anything from the late 20's & early 30's. Railroad blues from the track and chain gangs. Cadence songs that were sung by the Gandy Dancers. To me this was the heart of early American railroading.
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Post by Gary P on Jan 24, 2015 15:04:06 GMT -8
I like this one....
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Post by bnsf971 on Jan 24, 2015 15:27:48 GMT -8
There is also this one. I remember hearing this one when I was a little kid, and it just happened to coincide with my getting a Warbonnet train set:
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Post by curtmc on Jan 25, 2015 9:53:52 GMT -8
REM... Driver 8
(long version official video with extra train footage entry)
One of the videos from the first couple of years of the MTV era (you know, back when MTV was music videos)... Footage shot in Clifton Forge and Iron Gate, VA, just before the C&O locomotive shops at Clifton Forge were closed. (And yes, apparently the British influence of album producer Joe Boyd led them to use the British term "driver" instead of the more common American term "engineer")
The topic of the large railroad shops closing, the town facing a huge layoff of hundreds of workers from the primary employer who had been there 100+ years, and the appearance of many classic, now forlorn structures fit in well with the theme of REM's third album "Fables of the Reconstruction". And the train taken to get from Georgia to Virginia? That would be the "Southern Crescent" mentioned in the lyrics (that name still used by Amtrak).
By the time the video came out the shops were closed and that area fell into a huge recession. And just like many railroad towns, shops, and yards across the country, many of the tracks that existed at the time of the video are now gone. Today Clifton Forge remains a small switching yard and refueling point for most through trains (now as much oil and grain as the much reduced coal traffic). The shops are still there, dormant, and about 70% of the trackage pulled up.
Of the much older songs, City of New Orleans and Wreck of Old 97 are THE classic train songs IMHO...
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Post by onequiknova on Jan 25, 2015 10:07:31 GMT -8
Never thought of that as a train song before, but I go with that one too. |
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Post by Great-Northern-Willmar Div on Jan 25, 2015 10:56:08 GMT -8
One After 909
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Post by The Ferro Kid on Jan 25, 2015 11:14:54 GMT -8
City of New Orleans in a tie with Chattanooga Choo-Choo.
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Post by Spikre on Jan 25, 2015 13:57:13 GMT -8
?? Shocking Blue is still making music ? or is that song from a compilation of their late 60s/70s era stuff ? cant think of their name,but the Michigan duo with drums and organ, sort of a Central States Lee Michaels group. any way "She took the Katy,and left me a Mule to ride". was that Teegarden and Van Winkle ?? know that one or both of them played on Seger's "Smokin OPs". since neither Capitol or Warner Bros would put that album out,they put it out themselves on Palladium Records.when it started to take off[sell well] Capitol resigned Seger and put it out themselves. guess the original Palladuims' are sort of collectable now,but are the 8 Tracks collectable also ? Spikre  |
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Post by Brakie on Jan 26, 2015 9:28:45 GMT -8
I have three to be exact..
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Post by jamesbrodie67281 on Jan 27, 2015 2:54:51 GMT -8
I like ~working on the railroad-as played in the Clint Eastwood film Kelly's Heroes especially played through a loud speaker fixed to the front of a Sherman tank !!! A one that fires 'paint' instead of shells. They must have had fun making that film. I had a year calendar which had the music to it " On the road again"
Jim Brodie re-very-tired railwayman.
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Post by jaygee on Jan 27, 2015 15:43:05 GMT -8
Sign me up for Chuck Berry's Let it Rock, and All Aboard. There are others, but mostly obscure in the extreme.....like Fast Freight - Kingston Trio. AK47 had a really good rework of the old Creedence tune "Born on the Bayou" titled "Howl at the moon / Born at Altoona"...for the truly escoteric!
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