Friday, October 26, 2012

OLD TRAIN SONGS RIDE IN ON THE COLD FRONT (A TRAIN PHOTO BLOG)

Hi Everybody:

My first significant cold front arrived today. It came roaring through the woods like a freight train! Lightning, thunder, big rain drops and cold. I took the opportunity to fortify my "Star Command Post" (aka, my bed) with blankets and extra pillows. Yes, I found the down comforter, the candles and flashlights, the magazines and books, everything I need to hibernate! Something about lighting the first fire and putting on snuggle pj's and slippers made me think of Mom and Dad and the good old days when I was a kid.

I thought about some stuff we did that people do not do anymore. One thing was trains. My parents grew up in times when trains were more important than cars. Mom and Dad loved the old 'train songs'. I bet many of you young people do not even know people used to sing songs about trains!!! Dad loved the big Steam Engines roaring down the track.

The old trains of America have faded away. Overseas, trains have become more important than cars for travel.
Trains will likely rise again in the states as oil/gas is priced out of reach for cars.

In celebration of the first cold night here in Texas (and for Dad), I bring you a video lineup from Google You Tube Site of some of the old train songs!!!

Also, a look at some new trains and a bonus: Train Documentary! Enjoy!

All ABOARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fall Foliage on the

Western Maryland Scenic

Railroad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDOM-LuCt3M

High Speed Lötschberg base tunnel (Switzerland)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I8vtPaGTWE

Uploaded by mirifa1 on Oct 23, 2011

The Lötschberg Base Tunnel (LBT) is a 34.57 km long railway tunnel cutting through the Alps of Switzerland. It is currently the world's longest land tunnel and accommodates passenger and freight trains. It runs between Frutigen, Berne and Raron, Valais. Breakthrough was in April 2005 and construction ended in 2006. Full scale operation began in December 2007.

Category:

Travel & Events

License:

Standard YouTube License

Train

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A train is a connected series of rail vehicles propelled along a track (or "permanent way") to transport cargo orpassengers.

Motive power is provided by a separate locomotive or individual motors in self-propelled multiple units. Although historically steam propulsion dominated, the most common modern forms are diesel and electric locomotives, the latter supplied by overhead wires or additional rails. Other energy sources include horses, rope or wire,gravity, pneumatics, batteries, and gas turbines.

Train tracks usually consists of two, three or four rails, with limited monorails and maglev guideways in the mix.

The word 'train' comes from the Old French trahiner, from the Latin trahere 'pull, draw'

Types of trains

A passenger train may consist of one or several locomotives and coaches. Alternatively, a train may consist entirely of passenger carrying coaches, some or all of which are powered as a "multiple unit". In many parts of the world, particularly the Far East and Europe, high-speed rail is used extensively for passenger travel.
Special kinds of trains running on corresponding special 'railways' are atmospheric railways,monorails, high-speed railways, maglev, rubber-tired underground, funicular and cog railways.There are various types of trains that are designed for particular purposes. A train can consist of a combination of one or more locomotives and attached railroad cars, or a self-propelled multiple unit (or occasionally a single or articulated powered coach, called a railcar). Trains can also be hauled by horses, pulled by a cable, or run downhill by gravity.

Freight trains are composed of wagons or trucks rather than carriages, though some parcel and mail trains (especially Travelling Post Offices) are outwardly more like passenger trains.

Trains can also be 'mixed', comprising both passenger accommodation and freight vehicles. Such mixed trains are most likely to occur where services are infrequent, and running separate passenger and freight trains is not cost-effective, though the differing needs of passengers and freight usually means this is avoided where possible.

Special trains are also used for track maintenance; in some places, this is called maintenance of way.

In the United Kingdom, a train hauled by two locomotives is said to be "double-headed", and in Canada and the United States it is quite common for a long freight train to be headed by three or more locomotives. A train with a locomotive attached at each end is described as 'top and tailed', this practice typically being used when there are no reversing facilities available. Where a second locomotive is attached temporarily to assist a train up steep banks or grades (or down them by providing braking power) it is referred to as 'banking' in the UK, or 'helper service' in North America. Recently, many loaded trains in the US have been made up with one or more locomotives in the middle or at the rear of the train, operated remotely from the lead cab. This is referred to as "DP" or "Distributed Power."

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German ICE high speed passenger train (a form of multiple unit)

A Transperth B-series train

British Rail Class 390 Electric multiple unittrain in Virgin Trains livery

Steam locomotive-hauled passenger train

Japanese Shinkansen 500 Series (High-speed rail)

SEE LINK FOR COMPLETE ARTICLE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train

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FEATURE PRESENTATION

Train Songs of the Past!

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Arlo Guthrie

City Of New Orleans.wmv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEe9DF_mUEI

The Perfect Country & Western Song -

The Perfect Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW-YO1bRp64

Boxcar Willie -

Walbash Cannonball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrEcPdA0hE

Lonesome Whistle

Boxcar Willie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9QCcCq4nGI

Merle Haggard,

Oil Tanker Train

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCZq18mb1tQ

Johnny Cash - "Orange Blossom Special"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4-uoUpN1c4

Johnny Cash -

1974 - Folsom Prison Blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2sPvjlTdHo

Roger Miller -

King of the Road - With Lyrics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhAC0dFis0

Boxcar Willie.

Railway to heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9uvb_3CA2U

...this is brendasue signing off from Rainbow Creek. See You Next Time.

Bonus vids!
NEW TRAIN CARS (INSIDE VIEW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBO24iVVw-4