Five Little Miles to San Berdoo by the two and only Jane Russell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiAXpxwWiOs
The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - Johnny Mercer
I think this one might have made it onto the charts at one time - someone put together a video to it which is pretty good, but not as good as the one I remember seeing when the kids were watching Captain Kangaroo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tlCqqg7lw
In fact, I can't find the one from the show (which featured UP steam), but this video is all steam!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvJpgn7fVGY
Speaking of the Captain - how many know that the theme for his show was actually about a train? I give you "Puffing Billy":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csorirBIWgw
The song was heard daily, of course, in living rooms across the land.
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Jason Aldean- Night Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mns9VeRguys
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Well, first of course I have to post a link to REM's 'Driver 8'.Then Berlin's MetroFinally, in regards to the post above concerning Stud Terkel and Diesel is clean, there were at least 2 popular songs around that era with a passing mention of dieselsCream's 1968 "White Room"
You said no strings could secure you at the stationPlatform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windowsI walked into such a sad time at the station
Get about as oiled as a diesel train
Excerpt from Working by Studs Terkel (1972)
https://books.google.com/books?id=7M6dLngSY2gC&pg=PR29&dq=%22bill+norworth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj31bbHy-nVAhXE64MKHeDtAAcQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22bill%20norworth%22&f=false
[Bill Norworth, retired C&NW engineer]
A diesel's a lot easier than steam. It's a lot better job. Diesels can handle more cars, more tonnage. Diesel'll pull anything. They move, they can run. They don't take the know-how that you had to have with a steam engine. Steam engine was more of a challenge. Those men weren't well educated but still had the know-how. They could get more out of an engine than a man that had a college degree. It was all pride. When they got the diesel and got rid of the firemen, they had to make 'em engineers overnight almost. They're savin' themselves a penny, but it cost 'em, in my imagination, a dollar afterwards. 'Cause they've got men now goin' over the road that never even worked as a fireman on that territory, that hardly spent any time on the road. Most of the diesel work, it's electrical. If it breaks down, they can't fix it. You've gotta send for somebody. In the old days with a steam engine, why, it was up to you to get that engine in. If something you could see was wrong, why, you could do all the repairs yourself or put grease or oil or what was needed to bring it in. With the diesel, you got your throttle and a brake, same as an automobile. I think it's easier than driving an automobile. You're on rails. On an automobile you gotta watch curves and all that. That's truthful. Diesel's very clean. In the old days, with the steam engine, you had steam leaks and all that. And in the wintertime there was times you could almost go over the road and barely see any crossings, with the steam leaking around the cylinders. Diesel, you could sit in a business suit. Same as this room. It's almost soundproof. With a diesel, all you are is like a bump on a log up there up front.
For many years, author Studs Terkel hosted a radio show on Saturday nights in Chicago called The Midnight Special featuring the song as sung by Leadbelly.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Orange Blossom Special.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhs5j7HN8wM
This guy is pretty good with just the harmonica.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV4YJwRStKI
A timeless classic from Johnny Cash:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wG0fS4DoGUc
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