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sometimes i watch i love toy trains videos on youtube to get ideas about what i want for a layout but i always have questions whether it be about a song played or a certain train or accesory i see in the video or camera shot hopefully someone can help me because some of these questions i have had for 5+ years now 

1 there is a TM Books and Video nw2 switcher cab #1974 they called Elmer in one video its made by lionel and i can't find pictures or a price for one was only one made for TM itself or was it custom painted ?

2 who sings wabash cannonball in i love toy trains other than james coffey there is this old sounding guy that sings it and to me it sounds like a cross between Johnny Cash and Elvis this guy also sang i've been working on the railroad and another song in the series too in this link below he sings wabash cannoball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKlMzFoTVPM

in i love toy trains 2 there is a shot inside a standard gauge passenger car with red interior how did they accomplish the shot and what kind of passenger car is it 

what does the mailbag that goes to an American flyer wide gauge RPO  look like because i saw the presidential special in i love toy trains 2 catch one on the fly but i didn't get a good look at it

those scenes were in this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...FWHqCmmko&t=197s

 

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tncentrr posted:

Roy Acuff is the one who really made Wabash Cannonball famous. The song contains lyrics I don't understand  i.e. "she came down from Birmingham on the Wabash Cannonball". The Wabash Railroad did not come anywhere near Birmingham, Alabama. It ran in the Upper Midwest and was absorbed by N&W in the sixties.

Not sure there is any connection. Wasn't the song written over 20 years before The Wabash Cannonball was christened?

I think that's right. I believe I read that the Wabash did name a train the Cannonball toward the end of the private passenger era as a nod to the song. The song had been around for decades prior to that. The premier Wabash trains that I have read about were the Blue Bird and the Banner Blue which were inaugurated after WW2. Someone may correct my history, but I think that's close to what happened. Those of you who are real Wabash fans may want to chime in. 

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