SeeYou190It is obvious that "Country Music" now means something very different than I thought it did.
The reason the country music I listen to is on Sirius radio, particularly Willie's Road House, Outlaw Country, Blurgrass Junction, and occasionally Prime Country.
What's on the local am/fm "country" station is called "Bro-country", by the underground folks, and is mostly fake "country" boys in ball caps, going down "dirt roads" they never have really been on.
Mike.
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Good afternoon Diners. A cup of Assam tea and a couple of oaty raisin cookies please, Brunhilda.
Country music sure has changed over the years. Dawn and I used to attend Festivals, but not now.
"Be careful kiddies. There's a train comin'."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPClBQBF_Hc&ab_channel=BigJimVideoProductions
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
NorthBrit"Be careful kiddies. There's a train comin'." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPClBQBF_Hc&ab_channel=BigJimVideoProductions
David, that's kinda neat how some of the homes along the tracks have grass planted between the rails and they cut the grass with the rest of the yards. That looks like a fun ride.
York1 John
York1 That looks like a fun ride.
That looks like a fun ride.
SeeYou190 It is obvious that "Country Music" now means something very different than I thought it did. -Kevin
It is obvious that "Country Music" now means something very different than I thought it did.
-Kevin
Try finding a good oldies station. Most that bill themselves as oldies just play hair bands and screamers. My daughter is older than some of the music they call oldies.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
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Good morning everyone. Chloe, I am craving something salty, please just bring me a plate of fresh french fries.
mbinsewiThe reason the country music I listen to is on Sirius radio, particularly Willie's Road House, Outlaw Country, Blurgrass Junction, and occasionally Prime Country.
I usually stream (listen live) a station from Dallas, KHYI The Range, that plays new country, but not what I saw last night, more of down and dirty country. They are very enjoyable and play songs I hear nowhere else.
Living the dream.
If you want decent radio, you pretty much need satellite or even Pandora, and I think there might be a couple of more.
The Sirius channel 59, Willie's Road House is all the country classics.
Thanks for that ride David. Good thing locomotive engineers don't get carried away trying to follow GPS like some car and truck drivers, can you imagine an NS 110 car unit coal or ethanol train getting lost on that? haha!, or a 150 car CSX container train?
OOOPS! I had TOP !
How about an early lunch!
Have a great Monday!
Good Morning,
Well the predicted snow didn't arrive, only a very light dusting, not enough to even sweep. Now a Colorado low is to arrive with perhaps 10" of the stuff on Wednesday. Not holding my breath.
Not a fan of Country music so never listen to it. We get an internet channel called Stingray Jukebox Oldies. Playing But I Do by Clarence "Frogman"Henry right now. There are other channels with newer stuff. I guess classic rock depends on your age. I also listen to classical. We have a local station here that is all classical and CBC still has a fair amount.
Dug out a gondola that came apart and plsn on re-gluing it today. It is part of the work train. The Pacific is still sitting at the station waiting for orders. Maybe they will come today.
CN Charlie
For oldies, I just listen to itunes on my computer. I have loaded over 20,000 songs from my collection of around 5,000 CDs. I have plenty of custom playlists in itunes for any mood I am in. I have all the oldies.
I listen to the radio for new music. No local stations meet my mood, so I listen to it over the internet.
WMNF from Tampa and KHYI from Dallas are my two favorites. I used to listen to a station from North Carolina that only played live recordings, but they switched format a few years ago.
MisterBeasleyTry finding a good oldies station.
Hi MisterBeasley,
We use the Google music service provided by YouTube Music. We play it on our little smart box thingy (same sort of thing as Alexis) and we can get pretty much anything that we ask for. The trick is in knowing what to ask for. If we just ask for a specific band or singer it will play music exclusively by those artists, as least until their repetoire runs out. Then it will switch to a similar genre.
However, if we ask for a specific song, it will play that song and then play a variety of songs by other artists from that era and genre. Our favourite is to ask for 'The House of the Rising Sun' by the Animals, and the variety of music that follows suits us perfectly for hours. We get compliments from our friends saying how great our music selection is.
It also does radio stations, weather reports and much more. It can do grocery lists and to do lists, and it can act as an alarm clock. That tiny round box has entirely replaced our old stereo system and it is well worth the monthly fee. The sound is also terrific considering its size.
Cheers!!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
hon30critterThat tiny round box has entirely replaced our old stereo system
I don't know. I have a 7.1 surround sound in the living room, 5.1 with all in-wall speakers in the master bedroom, stereo speakers in the garage and train room, and four speakers built into the soffit on the back porch.
I can't imagine replacing all that with one tiny round speaker.
Good afternoon (believe it or not) from the Sunny Finger Lakes region of New york State!
BATMANWent for a 10.5km scoot in the cold pouring rain with my buddy on Friday and covered a lot of rough up-and-down terrain in pretty short order. Scrambled up a very steep 193-metre climb without slowing down. The dog is in all-wheel drive all the time and I was shifting into all-wheel drive as well at times on some really steep parts grabbing onto the rocks. We were both needing a hose down when we got home but felt terrific.
I didn't do quite that good this morning and only did a 5k inside at the Fieldhouse this morning. That said I have a decade of survival more on the planet than he does.....
I do hope that Spring hangs around for a while now that it seems to have found this area... Lady that I enjoy hanging around with and we walk a few miles on trails now and then tells me she is checking out some on line stuff on rails to trails here in the area.... One thing I intend to talk to her about is that there is a Mennonite Farmer nearby that purchased a short (3 to 5 mile) rail siding that still had rail and turned it into a track car line that people can rent and get some excercise with. I need to drive over to where the line starts and check that out....
The lady has pretty much healed up from a torn Meniscus a few months back....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
SeeYou190I have a 7.1 surround sound in the living room, 5.1 with all in-wall speakers in the master bedroom, stereo speakers in the garage and train room, and four speakers built into the soffit on the back porch. I can't imagine replacing all that with one tiny round speaker.
Hi Kevin,
I'm sure there would be no comparison, but the tiny box suits our purposes perfectly. We are not stereo afficionados. We like our music in the background so we can still easily hear each other and our guests talk. We almost never play it at more than 1/2 volume and yet it can be heard quite nicely throughout the entire main floor. We don't need speakers on the deck because the Google thing is right beside the patio door that leads to the deck, and we don't want our neighbours to have to listen to our music (I wish they had the same point of view!!)
I will say again that the sound quality is really good for the size. There is no distortion even at full volume, and the bass/treble balance is perfect IOHO. Will it rattle the windows? Nope, and we don't want it to.
Enjoy your music system!
SeeYou190I can't imagine replacing all that with one tiny round speaker.
We have three Alexas in the house. To answer our questions there is the little round speaker, however, they are all hooked up to significant sound systems in the house, one in the living room, one in the kitchen family room, and one in the train room. When I want to listen to music or listen to a lecture or something else along those lines, I just tell her to turn the sound system on in one, two, or all three rooms, and the music quality is top-notch.
Alexa is used constantly in our house, best tool ever.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMAN SeeYou190 I can't imagine replacing all that with one tiny round speaker. We have three Alexas in the house. To answer our questions there is the little round speaker, however, they are all hooked up to significant sound systems in the house, one in the living room, one in the kitchen family room, and one in the train room. When I want to listen to music or listen to a lecture or something else along those lines, I just tell her to turn the sound system on in one, two, or all three rooms, and the music quality is top-notch. Alexa is used constantly in our house, best tool ever.
SeeYou190 I can't imagine replacing all that with one tiny round speaker.
Hmmmmm...... Way back when I was a poor Public School Music Teacher, (we were the worst paid school system in NYS) my family lived in a large Trailer Park outside of the village. Our next door neighbors (former friends I might add) decided to have an all night...... ah.... We'll call it a party (involved a lot of Booze, and other, ah stimulants, etc., some activities we shouldn't discuss here and very loud music.) This was on a Saturday night and I had to be up and at Church to direct the choir the next morning. The party died down around 4am. (Nobody left, they were all, uh, unconcious, I guess, but the music at least stopped. I think the police may have stopped by too.)
So at about 6am, my wife and I got up, moved my fairly large home music system, outside turned the volume up to almost burn out the speakers and played this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfwAPg4rQQE
Just the opening section..... Before you listen, be sure to connect your computer to the biggest and best sound system you have, stand back and turn the volume up to "BLAST"... ]
A few minutes later several people left the house next door and went home.
That is my absolute favorite introduction to a major sound poem!!! The introduction is supposed to be the Creation of Heaven and Earth! Richard Strause knew how to create Romanticism!!!!
Enjoy but be careful of your ears!!!
01 118 Struggling in the Wet. Love the trees and 50 shades of green.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brw6Kly_gdM&ab_channel=PoweredbySteam
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howmusI didn't do quite that good this morning and only did a 5k inside at the Fieldhouse this morning. That said I have a decade of survival more on the planet than he does.....
Not sure what the future holds for me, Ray. Two things will do me in with my bad arthritis and lay me flat. One is eating carbs, the inflammation food. The second is carrying weight. When I have to carry weight such as moving many 40 lb bags of dog food I am in agony the next day.
Hmmm, look what just showed up. At least it is a small amount today.
If I eat real food, nothing manufactured, and don't lift heavy things I live pain-free with no need for any medications. More of my friends and acquaintances are going in for new hips and knees. But it is the ones that are making their bodies pack an extra 50-100 lbs that have to get it done. The body wasn't designed to carry that, especially the joints. Good muscle tone keeps things aligned as well.
This will never be me.
I am at 11% body fat and feel great and the wife likes it. I think if I eat properly and stay active I should be fine for a lot of years to come. Of course, I come from a generation of kids that if we got hungry while out playing, would pull a carrot out of the ground, wipe the dirt off on my jeans and eat it. Now they run in and eat a box of Oreos instead.
BATMANf I eat real food, nothing manufactured, and don't lift heavy things I live pain-free with no need for any medications. More of my friends and acquaintances are going in for new hips and knees. But it is the ones that are making their bodies pack an extra 50-100 lbs that have to get it done. The body wasn't designed to carry that, especially the joints. Good muscle tone keeps things aligned as well.
You got it! I just wish I had started 30 years ago! For me watching carbos and fat intact is the big "must do". Being diabetic I have a huge sweet tooth and that is not a good thing. There is a gent who runs over at the fieldhouse that had a son in the same class as my youngest. He is a retired Doctor and he and his beautiful wife often exercize at the Fieldhouse. The Doc just ran in a 5k competative race. I don't know where he finished, but I know he finished the race. He is...... 92 years old! What really touches me is every few laps at the fieldhouse he slows down and reaches out for his wife's hand. She takes his hand, gets up and walks a couple laps with him, then he gets back to running! That guy is one of my hero's!!!
I am trying to talk a lady that goes walking with me (and then we have lunch together) to driving to a Mennonite Farm nearby and have a day of Railbiking! I think that might be fun and a great use of a few miles of abandoned track near where we live....
https://www.flrailriders.com/about
Mike Danneman sure can find the scenery!
North of Cape Girardeau by Mike Danneman, on Flickr
I used to have an envious 7.1 surround system. Over the past few years with downsizing I now can get away using decent sound bars with subwoofers. I rarely watch the DVDs on the 'theater' TV upstairs and mostly pop a DVD into the 42" plasma (now an antique itself!) in my model workroom. There was a time I could make the glassware shake off the shelves when playing Top Gun or listening to the Hueys in We Were Soldiers. I guess we kind of outgrew that.
Best wishes to all —
Regards, Ed
Hi Everyone,
I know it looks like the only time I show up is to comment on music. Wellll, that's not exactly the case. ill have to appear more often to avoid such impressions.
However, country music has gone through some dramatic changes. The genre started adopting rock rhythms and phrasing in the 80's. Around 1990 the labels dropped almost all of their established artists and signed a bunch of younger "newcomers." These people grew up playing rock as well as country so that now country can be summed up as rock with a twang. That's the short version, but it's basically what happened.
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
gmpullmanI used to have an envious 7.1 surround system.
I will say that my 7.1 in the living room makes a real theater experience at home.
I am looking at replacing my main front speakers. I built these speakers about 25 years ago. Each one has a 12" subwoofer, and that is not needed now that I have a good powered subwoofer. I am looking at a pair of Klipsch speakers with built in Atmos channels. They are only about half the width, and that will allow for less congestion on that wall.
The new 5.1 in the master bedroom really impresses me. It has 4 small 2-way Polk Audio speakers and a Polk Audio center speaker. All of these are built into the vertical sections of the tray ceiling. These speakers sound amazing. I have an 8 inch subwoofer in the ceiling concealed behind an air return grill. It really makes the room come alive.
Out back the four speakers surround the porch. They are cheap off-brand center channel speakers that I selected because they most closely matched the size of the air vents I put in the soffit. They do not sound great, and are not loud, but they are plenty good enough for background music outside.
I never turn anything up loud enough to shake stuff up, but I could.
hon30critterWe don't want our neighbours to have to listen to our music (I wish they had the same point of view!)
Me too. It seems we always have one rude household in the neighborhood that thinks we should all let them select the music for us. I won't spend the money necessary to do that.
The best outdoor speakers I've ever had are these Yamaha models:
https://a.co/d/cCQLbkq
The first pair I had lasted about twelve years and even held up pretty well being right in the open weather for the last few years where I had an outdoor patio. The current pair are under a protected pavillion area.
It was just that kind of day around here today.
Sixteen Paws by Edmund, on Flickr
Scenery — B&O style:
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O195 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O483 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Thomas Underwood Coll B&O504 by John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Good morning Diners. A large coffee please, Flo.
A busy day ahead with a lot of little jobs to do.
Scenery Egyptian style.
IMG_0205 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Scenery at Clarence Dock Yard.
IMG_2585 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Good Morning Diners. Zoe, coffee and a danish please.
Bad day at w*rk yesterday. Could easily continue today. Here's hoping it doesn't.
SeeYou190I am looking at a pair of Klipsch speakers with built in Atmos channels. They are only about half the width, and that will allow for less congestion on that wall. The new 5.1 in the master bedroom really impresses me. It has 4 small 2-way Polk Audio speakers and a Polk Audio center speaker.
Mike
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Good morning everyone. Chloe, I'll take a large glass of milk while I decide what to order.
Water Level Routenone of it would fit in the Colorado I was buying. The money hasn't really made it's way to the Colorado's stereo yet and boy do I ever miss it.
My little red colorado has lived for 15 years with the stock AM/FM radio and two speakers.
This was OK, but now the FM stations have all cut their broadcast power, and it is impossible to pick up a station outside of town.
Only my 1966 Mercury had an aftermarket system. That has been gone for 30+ years.
Good morning, everyone. Flo, please get me bacon, eggs, and coffee. Leave the coffee pot at the table.
I will be the outlier in the diner today. I don't listen to music. (I see everyone's judgmental stares at me from every table in the diner.)
In the late 60s-early 70s, as a college student and then single graduate, I had a great sound system and enough record albums to sink a ship.
Somewhere along the way, I quit listening. My car radio switched to talk radio, and my first apartment was not lonely when I had the TV on. That has continued to today.
I have a TV on the wall in the train room that is on 18 hours a day. It is background noise for me -- the program is often not important. Mostly the channel is Turner Classic Movies. If the TV is not on, I feel like something is missing in my life. I'm sure there is a medical term for my condition.
My wife does play music sometimes, but not often. On the rare occasion when she wants music, it is Christian music played on a small portable CD player.
I sometimes envy those of you with great sound systems and your extensive knowledge of musicians, but it just isn't for me. I don't know why.
Oh well, now that everyone is bored with a personal story, for me it's back to work on the layout. Today I'm starting a new set of tracks leading to a transmodal yard (still to be built). My TV is on -- a rerun of a 1988 Matlock show. I'm not watching, but the background noise is comforting.
I hope everyone has a great Tuesday, especially those diners who still have to get their money the hard way -- by working. I get my money the easy way -- the investment company and the government put money in my bank account each month and I don't have to work for it. I like this much better than the way I used to do it.
This month will be difficult for me with photos. Where I live, this is about as scenic as we get:
UP M-INNP at Sidney by Travis Mackey, on Flickr
York1 I don't listen to music. (I see everyone's judgmental stares at me from every table in the diner.)
Jukebox Stops
Waitress Gasps
Someone Drops A Fork
Big Guy Asks "Who Is That Guy"
Someone Answers "Don't Know, Ain't Seem Him Before"
Before I downsized and moved to Delaware, I used to listen to appropriate "choochaphonic" music, mostly with cable TV's music channels, either with old rock when running Transition Era equipment or Big Band when running 30s stuff. I have a dual-era layout.
I still have a CD player in my car, original equipment. I don't drive enough to have anything more, and creating a music library on my phone simply isn't worth the trouble.
MisterBeasleyI used to listen to appropriate "choochaphonic" music.
I searched this term in both Google Dictionary and Urban Dictionary. No match.
Please help...