I collected all the songs about trains I could find anywhere and eventually put them all on a CD. They included all the Glenn Miller songs, the Monkeys, some Johnny Cash and lots of others. Part of the fun was collecting the songs. I ran a thread here about 6 months ago asking for favorite train songs and that was helpful. If I can find it I'll ad it.
I could not find that thread. I did search songs and got many pages of reading, but it included the names of a lot of songs.
Why not play music from the era you are modelling. If you model Transition era, play 40s and 50s music. If you model more modern times play something appropriate - I play rock music whatever the period, but that's me.
If you are going to do a CD, remember copyright laws.
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"The City of New Orleans," comes to mind. A reach would be, "The Gambler," you know, "On a train bound for nowhere...." How about, "The Last Train for Clarkesville?" The obvious, "Chattanooga Choo Choo." A little bluegrass, I think it's called, "The Cannonball Express."
But you know what, I think I would go with the music from the era you are modeling, as has been suggested. It's not necessarily about trains, it's about the feel.
BRAKIE wrote:I only listen to music while doing scenery,painting,kit building etc and not during operation.
That's what the club I go to does. We turn on the radio and then work(us youngings). The old guys work but they have a tendancy to start talking, and then they don't usually stop for quite a while.
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Thats a really nice list there larack. Tuck that on a computer and let it play repeat random you could have plenty for a op session or a building session.
Personally I listen to classical.
Dvorak (New World...always thought that this would have made a great piece for Fantasia showing the construction and passage of the Transcontinetal Railroad)
Grofe (Grand Canyon, Niagra and Mississippi Suites)
The Simpsons (Monorail, Mason Darier)
Berloiz (Symphony Fantastique)
Beethoven (pretty much whatever I can find)
PDQ Bach (Abduction of Figaro)
Holst,
Gilbert and Sullivan (Pirates, Pinafore, Mikado, Yoman, etc)
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jon grant wrote: Why not play music from the era you are modelling. If you model Transition era, play 40s and 50s music. If you model more modern times play something appropriate - I play rock music whatever the period, but that's me. If you are going to do a CD, remember copyright laws. Jon
That is exactly what I'm planning on doing. I'm eventually going to build a layout, roughly/loosely based on Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the '88 to '93 era. I've got "i-tunes" on my computer, and have been pulling off what I was listening to back then. I already have speakers up in the RR room, and figure when all is up and running (sometime this century), it'll be like going back to a much, much simpler time in my life.
Cheaper than therapy!
Oh, .99 per song, only going to my computer...so no copyright issues, and the "artists" get their cut too.
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You have to include the Doobie Brothers song, Long Train Runnin', in that list.
We've never put any music on while operating, just while building or goofing off in the train room. While operating, we all have radios stuck in our ears and it is cool just listening to that since several of our guys work for railroads. It gets to sounding just like the scanner chatter you hear while chasing the prototype.
Until one of the guys forgets and puts his radio on voice activated and picks up a hard cookie to eat. It sounded like somebody crushing rocks and brought things to a standstill while we all started laughing.
Beware the VOX switch on those radios!
I don't think music would interfere with operations, we have just never put any on.
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