I usually throw on some bluegrass or classic country. Flatt & Scrugg, Rusty York, The Churchmen, Conway Twitty, Waylon Jennings, John Denver
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None. The trains are too loud. Besides, I rather hear the steam locomotives anyway.
Ditto. I am lucky to have a conversation.
Originally Posted by Hot Water:
None. The trains are too loud. Besides, I rather hear the steam locomotives anyway.
None also, don't really listen to music at anytime and like hot water I like the sounds of my trains.
Polka Music.
I live fairly close to the NS line here in NC. I have a scanner in my train room which I have set up to scan the NS frequencies. So, I'm listening to 1:1 trains in addition to my O gauge and G gauge trains.
Originally Posted by Hot Water:
None. The trains are too loud. Besides, I rather hear the steam locomotives anyway.
Ditto....I'm always puzzled when I see these threads. How can one hear anything besides the trains clacking, the cab chatter, the horns or steam whistles we all like to sound, etc.? I only have four loops and I can't hear anything from the radio sitting on top of the fridge next to the layout! 
- Mike
WTMD, a college station that has Weasel on 2 days a week. He is easily one of the best DJs in America. For those in the DC are and remember him from the old WHFS days, he's still around. Alternate rock n roll.
DCD
I'm in the none group. I love to hear the engine sounds and the clickety clack of the rail joints.
Art
None as I love to listen to the trains.
But when Im working on the layout I usually listen to some model railroad podcast. Two of my favs are Notch 6 and Model Rail Radio.
Mostly alternative rock - Bastille, the Kongos, Monsters and Men, etc. Yeah, I'm 65 but . . . only eight years old at heart.
Rock and roll train. Ac/dc
While I am building this layout I have on some Country music Or some Alice Cooper.
60's/70's/80's Rock.
I finished one of walls in my unfinished basement to mount a TV, in-wall speakers, and my 70's tube AM/FM receiver and direct drive turntable.
Usually throw vinyl on the turntable and I'm good to go. The little city of Frederick, MD (pop 67,000) has 3 used record shops so it's always easy to find records at a great price! 
Jim
p.s. Forgot to mention that my 20-year old daughter dj'ed her first two years of college at the campus radio station, enjoys early rock (including heavy metal) and likes hunting for new (old) vinyl even more than me! 
I have a flat screen TV with DVD player and I put on a train movie or old railroad documentaries while I am on my layout. It kind of sets the scene and goes along with running trains or work projects on the layout. I don't want to be distracted with music, I listen to that when I'm drinking Martini's.
Steve, Lady and Tex
nothing my wife has the radio on all the time so i escape to the train room for trains and silence
Too loud right now with track noise. For my new layout I have lots of train-folk music. if not that, then light classical or modern Christian worship.
We have given thought to installing XM Radio. We have it in the cars and boat and love it. Channel 69 would do it n nicely.
I can't hear much with six trains running at once. So I play the RAMONES full blast.
anyone that knows my dad. its dean martin and frank thats how he has been doing it for 40 years. Tom
Garrett76 I don't have trains running at this time but on the old layout I did not listen to music while running trains. While building the old and the new layout's I listen to classic rock or country. (we have both types of music here country and western) Blues Brothers movie I always loved that line. Choo Choo Kenny
If anything It's Classic Rock N Roll but mostly it's just the trains.
Normally I just listen to my trains running the rails. Once in a while I will put on a little Willy Wonka..."Pure Imagination".
The only music that I listen to while operating trains is stack talk, whistles, bells and other RR sounds.
Paul Fischer
I usually start everything up and running then put on my headphones and listen to some 70" classic rock for awhile !
When the trains are running no music. When working on the layout or dreaming about the next purchase it's 50's & 60's.
When having an operating session, no music, but working at bench or on the layout, I like Detroit Sports Talk Radio.
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No music. The trains' noise drowns out music played at any reasonable level. When just working on the trains or layout, though, it's apt to be 60s rock 'n roll, old country, ABBA, or classical.
I have a small layout, 7'x 10', with 3 separate loops and can run 3 trains at once (reference for noise). I have a ligh bar (lighting) directly over my layout with stereo speakers amied downwards. I like to play various railroad effects cd's like first gen diesels vols 1&2, Pennsy Steam etc. while I run trains, its a great background effect! I only listen to music when I'm doing MOW not running trains.
Stack
2 choices for me. Either banjo music (like some of you play on your train videos... YUK) but mostly I like to hear the clickity clack of the train over the rails. That's one reason I use all 10" pieces of track. Now that's music to my ears.
Rick
None...the trains are loud enough. But if I had to put on music while operating...I would make it country...that way I wouldn't have to hear it over the loud sounding trains! 
OK...I do like me some Johnny Cash, but that's it from the country genre. Otherwise it's 60s, 70s, 80s rock, and funk/soul music for me. I will listen on XM while working on the layout, but never while running the trains.
Rick
Music?
Didn't we just do this a couple of months ago?
I listen to the train sound systems. Music on in the background would just be noise with all of the trains running with their great sound systems.
But if the trains are NOT running: Classical, jazz-fusion, HAIM, various.
I model On30 so the sounds of the motors and wheels going over the rails isn't very loud. All my locomotives have digital sound and I run with DCC, so that was a lot of money spent just to drown it out with music. Once the layout is ready for op sessions, I'll be requiring people to sound the whistles for forward-backward movements, station stops and grade crossings.
Now, that said, if they weren't sound-equipped, I'd probably listen to Johnny Cash trains songs (have three CDs of them) and this song over and over again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3tlCqqg7lw
I have three sets of giant PA speakers under the platform as well as a subwoofer powered by two large amplifiers in a rack mount system. When I do use the system while the trains are running, I do not play music, but a pre-recorded disc of train sounds. When I am just working on my layout, for entertainment purposes, I play mainstream and soul jazz, blues, and classical.
