Music to model railroad by

[tbdanny]

Hi all,

I was wondering, do you listen to music while you're working on your model railroads, and if so, what type of music is it?

I'll start off by saying that I listen to Rod Stewart - checked out his music after seeing the December 2007 MR and liked it.

[Anonymous]

 While working on the layout, yes, occasionally, stuff like Joe Cocker, Genesis, Phil Collins, Supertramp, even classic music, now and then. While operating - NO! All my locos have sound!

[tstage]

Mostly classical and sacred.  Sometimes I'll watch (actually listen to more than watch) a movie with my wife while I'm working on the layout or a kit.  Also, the Cleveland Indians haven't been much to listen to this year so the radio has been pretty much silent.

Tom

[TMarsh]

No, not generally, but occasionally I do and then it is country. Real country, not this new pop-country or whatever it's called.

[Graffen]

I do have a tendency to listen mostly to CCR and The Who when I am working on the layout.

[mobilman44]

Hi!

I prefer the "classic rock" for the most part, but now find what the radio calls "classic rock" is just not all that "classic" - and is more a mix of late '70s and '80s stuff.

Classic rock - to this "war baby" - is mid '50s thru early '70s.  I also like "classic country", but again the radio's definition doesn't quite match with mine.

As an aside, there are tons of classic country & rock songs out there, but the stations here (Houston area) seem to have about 100 song playlist and everything else is verbotten!

For what its worth......

Mobilman44 

[C&O Fan]

I've always thought Johnny Cash music and Steam Engines go together 

[AlreadyInUse]

"This old engine
makes it on time
Leaves Central Station
at a quarter to nine
Hits River Junction
at seventeen to
at a quarter to ten
you know it's trav'lin again"

 Casey Jones. Words by Robert Hunter; music by Jerry Garcia

[Robby P.]

Well I listen to more rock, than anything else.  Ozzy, Aerosmith, really 80's/90's rock.  Just a small bit of todays.   I try to listen to the radio, but its like five mintues of music, and 20 minutes of commercials.  

[superbe]

 

I have a 6 disc CD player with various music themes playing in a random mode.. They range from "super stars of the fifties, '60s pop, Country ala country classics, Blue Grass by the "Country Gentlemen", and John Denver's recordings.

Some CD sets come with more than one CD and I alternate them. I like the music to be as loud as my wife can put up with.

 And sometimes silence is golden.                             

Radio doesn't play my kind of music any longer so I am strickly CD.

Bob

"I've been working on the railroad" is a song I don't have and will try to find..

Bob

 

 

[Packers#1]

 I listen to:

 Skillet

 Hawk Nelson

Pillar

Relient K

Third Day

 Kutless

 Demon Hunter (when I get some of their CDs)

 Project 86 (once again, when I get one of their CDs)

I also listen to Tobymac and DC Talk, as well as any christian alternative rock, rock, hard rock, etc.

[pastorbob]

Depends on what I am doing on the railroad.  If I am actually working on the railroad, I play gospel at a lower pitch so I can hear the intercom if my wife calls.  Well, I am a pastor.   I also favor classic country over any other music.

If I am at the work bench, I usually have the TV on to keep up on what is going on unless I am painting and decalling, then it goes silent so I can concentrate.

 Bob

 

[luvadj]

 Classic rock for me....especially Pink Floyd or Hendrix...but any music will do out there while I'm working on the layout.

[Packers#1]

pastorbob

Depends on what I am doing on the railroad.  If I am actually working on the railroad, I play gospel at a lower pitch so I can hear the intercom if my wife calls.  Well, I am a pastor.   I also favor classic country over any other music.

If I am at the work bench, I usually have the TV on to keep up on what is going on unless I am painting and decalling, then it goes silent so I can concentrate.

 

Unless I'm listening to Country, all those bands I posted are christian too. just southern rock style, alternative rock, hard rock, etc., etc. Usually the TV is on too, but with a volume of zero or close to it.

[garyla]

mobilman44

Hi!

I prefer the "classic rock" for the most part, but now find what the radio calls "classic rock" is just not all that "classic" - and is more a mix of late '70s and '80s stuff.

Classic rock - to this "war baby" - is mid '50s thru early '70s.  I also like "classic country", but again the radio's definition doesn't quite match with mine.

As an aside, there are tons of classic country & rock songs out there, but the stations here (Houston area) seem to have about 100 song playlist and everything else is verbotten!

For what its worth......

Mobilman44 

This boomer agrees with you. Those 100-song playlists are the bane of commercial radio.  Maybe the "suits" who run your stations are like the mindless ones who run ours in California. It's to the point where I only turn to the commercial music stations in desperation, when satellite radio has gotten a little stale and I don't have my own CDs with me.

Come to think of it, though, maybe I prefer to do modeling work in silence anyway!

 -garyla

[BATMAN]

 I like listening to Gordon Lightfoot. What could be more Canadian than working on my little CPR and listening to gord singing the Canadian Railroad Trilogy.

 

                               There was a time in this fair house when the railroad did not run

                               When the window in the trainroom stood alone against the sun

                               Long before six Goldens and long before two kids

                               When that big empty trainroom was to silent to be real.

[nyflyer]

I listen to my PHILLIES every night, and when there not on its 60's & 70's pop hits. 

                                 "GO PHILLIES"

[shayfan84325]

If there's baseball on TV, I'll have the game on - It doesn't matter who is playing. In the off season I listen to a radio station that plays a lot of classic Motown.

[vsmith]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY

 

[shayfan84325]

vsmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY

 

That was like a root canal!

[DingySP]

Mmmm....Jello

[vsmith]

shayfan84325

vsmith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DDkR8RtkY

 

That was like a root canal!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52scMVXF2mc&feature=related

 

You'll love this one then

[hornblower]

I'm pretty open to lots of different musical styles but if I want to get into a really creative mood, it's got to be Jack Sheldon.  Even though few people know who Jack is, I'd be willing to bet that almost everyone on this forum has heard him (and liked what they heard) at least once in their lifetime. 

[Packers#1]

 How about some youtube samplings of my kinds of music?

 Third Day (I think you older folks will like this band, sorta like southern rock):

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x04BJHoLPrA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmZ38HehKxE

Also, Kutless:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fe-qoF6WV0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hXCFdWStLg (little bit harder)

OK, enough of the slower stuff, let's introduce the hard core rock (yet again, this band is chriatian, though you'd never guess except for the lyrics. The only downside is it's kinda hard to focus when you're banging your head to the music):

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZa_UMCmAOE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ht670jfmiI&feature=related

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhVFHfvvMVw

Skillet is a bit less intense, but still pretty heavy:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6obINPvZtg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kfi3rN0C50&feature=related

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0Ne9aW7UI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKD2Y2GCYk&feature=related

Now yet again we'll get a bit lgihter with some Relient K:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z1YE9aMmVk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tfR5KvsFVU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFi9JMirtok&feature=related

we'll stay in the same vein with Hawk Nelson:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3aafwKFjUw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8iC2MQrgKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4-kmcPBGNY

let's get a little harder rock with Pillar now, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgfMigOMEO0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVFiLBkFONI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5XFLS8Kyto

 Some other bands: Subseven, Secret and Whisper, Project 86, Underoath, Anberlin

EDIT: forgot tobymac!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjzp1vJwQg

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7AyIZlbYn8

Bit of DC Talk too:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbB0QrBIs9k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCcHM26qS90

[Robt. Livingston]

Urban hip-hop.  I'm a boomer, too, 60 years old.  How did that happen?    

[csmincemoyer]

luvadj

 Classic rock for me....especially Pink Floyd or Hendrix...but any music will do out there while I'm working on the layout.

Hmmm....Floyd and Hendrix, I'm dying to see pictures of your scenery

[groundeffects]

My railroad is set in the tropics, so just about anything from Jimmy Buffet blends right in....

Hmm, maybe it's time to head down to them little latitudes again.

Jeff B

 

[markpierce]

When I do it is something like this Joe Price piece.  Click on to listen.

http://www.stumbleaudio.com/#joeprice3/14

My apologies to Joe Price if I mangled his lyrics:

"Two miles ahead, three miles back,

Miles and miles of this railroad track,

We are walkin' on Chicago Northwestern Line.

Look at Sammy, look at Jack

Pounding spikes and alignin' track.

They are working on Chicago Northwestern Line

Walkin' ease with the wind at our back,

Up and down this railroad track,

CNW is right on time

Rolling by at a half past nine.

Dead Will here, dead Will there

They don’t worry, and they don’t care,

They are rollin' down Chicago Northwestern Line ..."

Mark

[steemtrayn]

Robby P.

   I try to listen to the radio, but its like five mintues of music, and 20 minutes of commercials.  

Try WFMU. No commercials, and you rarely hear the same song twice in the same month.

http://wfmu.org/

[Jake1210]

Oh lets see, lots of bands...

 Slipknot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO83v6X8lI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9IixYR_p-4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAvNmoqDq0

 Disturbed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmux0pTdXhc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVL9PD3sN7M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w2i0XQLHoI

 Bullet for My Valentine

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LoZHYanSOk

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlljtdqKJuM

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AhQDItmxH

 Children of Bodom

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stclc74HpNs

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv44Or5WP_I

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f9B5Ki36BQ

 Amon Amarth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVWBJHVSrAE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eooG_4T42c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BXt-g4euqA

Well, not 'lots' are listed, but there are a lot of bands I'm choosing not to post because of touchy content...