Favorite songs with O Gauge train videos

Regards

Fred

Arnold, I love the song and video. When I used to ride the 7 line through Queens, I always thought of this song, especially when I went past Corona.

Miketg

Thanks Mike.

My vote for greatest train song of all time is City of New Orleans. Unfortunately, I do not have any Illinois Central trains, which are essential to make a train video to go with the song.

City of New Orleans has great lyrics to go with a video. Here are some of the song's lyrics which could go beautifully with scenes in a model train video:

"Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, three conductors and twenty five sacks of mail.

All along the southbound odyssey, the train pulled out at Kankakee, and rolls along past houses, farms and fields, passin' trains that have no names, and freight yards full of old black men, and the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.

Dealin' card games with the old men in the club car.

Pass the paper bag that holds the Bottle

And the sons of Porters and the sons of engineers, ride their father's magic carpets made of steel, mothers with their babes asleep, are rockin' to the gentle beat, and the rhythm of the rail is all they feel.

Nightime on the City of New Orleans, changing cars in Memphis Tennessee,  halfway home, we'll be there by morning, through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.

And the steel rails still ain't heard the news, the conductor sings his songs again, the passengers will please refrain, this train has got the disappearin' railroad blues."

In my opinion, a train layout designed to go with these lyrics would make for a very down to earth and entertaining layout, and the ultimate would be to make a first class City of New Orleans O Gauge train video/song.

Arnold

Not a favorite song, just a generic one with some black and white effects while playing around on youtube. I thought then end result had a nice "feel" to it:

sncf231e posted:

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Fred

Fred, I loved your video/song. In the video shot at dusk or nightime, it looked like sparks or flames were coming out of the smoke stack of the locomotive. Is that a real miniature steam engine? Arnold

RickO posted:

Not a favorite song, just a generic one with some black and white effects while playing around on youtube. I thought then end result had a nice "feel" to it:

Very nice, Ricko. Beautiful trains and layout, and the music works well.

I love long trains like the one in your video. I usually make my trains as long as possible. My maximum is 11 or 12 train cars. I would make my trains longer, but I can't because I have reverse loops, and if I make them longer, the train will hit its tail. Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

sncf231e posted:

Regards

Fred

Fred, I loved your video/song. In the video shot at dusk or nightime, it looked like sparks or flames were coming out of the smoke stack of the locomotive. Is that a real miniature steam engine? Arnold

Arnold,

These are clockwork trains with a flint as in a lighter. The sparks look like smokestack lightning which in the real world were burning cinders emitted from the smokestack of a wood burning locomotive.

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Fred

Arnold, I love your video and song idea, but, lyrically, that song is unflattering to your images. Paul Simon said that while the song wasn’t biographical, he wrote it generically from the standpoint of anyone hating the town in which they grew up.

Thus, the lyric: “Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town.”

The rest of the lyrics paint a bleak picture, too, especially the short verse:

“In my little town I never meant nothing
I was just my father's son
Saving my money
Dreamin of glory
Twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun.”

Your layout is colorful and pleasant, and a lot more smile-provoking than Simon’s song.

Jim R. posted:

Arnold, I love your video and song idea, but, lyrically, that song is unflattering to your images. Paul Simon said that while the song wasn’t biographical, he wrote it generically from the standpoint of anyone hating the town in which they grew up.

Thus, the lyric: “Nothing but the dead and dying back in my little town.”

The rest of the lyrics paint a bleak picture, too, especially the short verse:

“In my little town I never meant nothing
I was just my father's son
Saving my money
Dreamin of glory
Twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun.”

Your layout is colorful and pleasant, and a lot more smile-provoking than Simon’s song.

Your point is well taken, Jim. Some of the lines of Simon's song do not work at all to promote the hobby.

When Simon and Garfunkel re-united and did a concert tour together maybe 10 to 15 years ago, I saw their live performance at a  large arena in Albany, NY. It was very moving to hear them do My Little Town, especially knowing many of the people in the audience lived in such towns in the Albany vicinity. They brought the house down in their finale with Garfunkel singing Bridge Over Troubled Water.

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Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans is not only my favorite train song, it is one of my favorites period.   I definitely plan to do a video when I get a version of the train that I really like. 

Art  

Chugman posted:

Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans is not only my favorite train song, it is one of my favorites period.   I definitely plan to do a video when I get a version of the train that I really like. 

Art  

Arlo sang the best-known version of the song (one of my favs, too) ... but it was Steve Goodman who wrote the song.  I actually prefer Goodman's version.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Goodman

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

this song may show up in future videos as i'll have it playing in the back ground off my computer that is CTI lets you have multiple tabs open

see if you can figure out the theme of my future pike

https://youtu.be/FFaCh8eLUm0

Arnold, here's one for you. I have the 45 rpm Sun record. It also came out on 78 rpm. Elvis doing "Mystery Train". It's amazing the sound just three guys can do. This was recorded on Sun before his RCA contract. I have two Sun records both with Elvis. Sun Records was an small company but had some of the greats. Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Merle Haggard, Roy Orbison, Roger Miller and many more. The building still stands and what a great model it would make. Don

scale rail posted:

Arnold, here's one for you. I have the 45 rpm Sun record. It also came out on 78 rpm. Elvis doing "Mystery Train". It's amazing the sound just three guys can do. This was recorded on Sun before his RCA contract. I have two Sun records both with Elvis. Sun Records was an small company but had some of the greats. Johnny Cash, Sam Phillips, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Merle Haggard, Roy Orbison, Roger Miller and many more. The building still stands and what a great model it would make. Don

Don, that must be a very young Elvis singing Mystery Train. I would not have recognized his voice. It became deeper and more of a rich baritone later on, certainly when he did In the Ghetto, and even when he was younger and did Hound Dog and Love Me Tender.

What a great voice he had. He was arguably King of Rock and Roll. Arnold

Arnold, he did Mystery Train in 1955. I wrote Downtown Deco and sent pictures of the studio asking them to make it. Hope they can do it. I'm sure RCA with all their latest equipment made Elvis sound better than Sun Records could do but his voice did become deeper. Don

January 9, 1935 the birth of Elvis

Arnold,  I’m thinking of some grittier songs like “Hard Times” by Whyte Horses or “The Passenger” by Iggy POP.  I can imagine designing a skid row scene & hitting a button on the layout to play the song.

One of my favorites!

“Buddy Better Get Down The Line”  by the

Kingston Trio

https://youtube.com/watch?v=z_...;si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE

Best Train Song Ever

Jon