When I'm running trains I listed to the music of the engines and clackety-clack of rolling stock going over the rails.
When I'm just working on the layout my preferred genre is metal. Mostly symphonic metal but lately, I seem to be on an Arch Enemy kick.
--Greg
"anyone that knows my dad. its dean martin and frank thats how he has been doing it for 40 years. Tom"
Tom, Sr., has good taste in music.
I don't listen to music when I'm running trains, but if I did Old Blue Eyes would be an excellent choice if that ever changes.
Art
My Train Music
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Josh Graves, Norman Blake & Vassar Clements set' recorded in 1974.
Dave
I normally don't listen to music while I am operating my trains.
Love to listen to those Steam Engines !!!
I believe this question was asked before by Rock Stars1989.
Even still I like to listen to Trans Siberian Orchestra, Rush (not Rush Limbaugh) and a local band called the Clarks.
C MMMMMOOOOON!!!!..PADLOCK
I listen to right wing talk radio all day every day.
Bluegrass and/or Western Swing. Hey, Bob Wills is still the KING!
Jazz. Gotta be jazz. Around the holidays, it's holiday jazz. Occasionally big band. That's the era I run, and it's just kind of sets the mood.
Since I am rebuilding and not running ... I had the cable Radio feed on Blues. Muddy Waters BB King Albert Collins I was having a great day.
Side note to Mark Strittmatter TSO 11/16 3PM show I'm ready(all new show)!
None while operating. When working I will have on a ball game or talk radio.
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Dennis
GlennMiller
I am between layouts because of the impending move. But work on trains continues due to the modular layout activities.
I find working to Gregorian chants relaxing. You former Latin students familiar with Cantus Planus would know.
On the net Pandora radio has a 24/7 Gregorian Chant channel.
I never play music while running my trains.When I am working on my layout or trains,I play vinyl records on the Seeburg juke box I grew up with at my parent's house.The first train layout my Dad built for me and my brother when I was very young was a finished layout on the floor right in front of this juke box.Too bad no photos were taken of the layout.
Dan
Nothing when running trains. But when working on the layout, 50's, 60's and country.
Gerry
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
"heavy metal" listening for my train to fall off the layout and hit the floor lol
None also, don't really listen to music at anytime and like hot water I like the sounds of my trains.
David, does that mean I can't sell you any more records? Wait a minute -- what is a record? Is that like a steam engine?
Gerry
None. Running two rail the room is so quiet I get to hear the frog clicks.
As per what I mentioned about my dad loving listening to Dean Martin & Frank while working on our layout, the music I like to listen to is WKHR 91.5 Here's there website http://www.wkhr.org/ I also love music from the 60's & 70's. But my all time favorite songs to listen to while working on the layout is Runaway by the Real McCoy & I Feel Love by Donna Summer.
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! 
Long live reissues on 180gr VINYL; the best way to listen to music.
Sinatra, Neil Young, CS&N, Moody Blues and yes; some opera (Tourndot)
bptBill, my wife and I seen TSO in State College PA. 2 years ago.
It was one heck of a show.
Money well spent!!!!
Well, it seems it's like the railroad you design and run. Anything goes as long as it makes you happy. In my case it's usually the reverse. I'm probably on the internet in my train room, and the trains are the background music.
My trains can run real quietly. I have atlas track on cork roadbed on a sound board. No track screws touch the underlying plywood, and the sound board is glued to the plywood. I mostly run digital trains so the volume can be kept down when I want.
When I do have music it would probably be You-Tube top 40 on a big screen, but then again it could be anything but raucous rock or brain thumping hip-hop.
Alan
when the trains aren't running, different stuff. Frank Sinatra,Glenn Miller,Homer & Jethro,
The Bickersons.
Depends on how I feel. Fox news with the trains running in the back ground. Techno or Euro Trash. Late at night after everybody is in bed, nothing as the sound of the trains on the rails are relaxing. It Wouldn't be the first time I have fallen asleep.
Since we only have enough time to run trains in the evening before bedtime we like to hear the sounds of the bells, whistles, and chuffing. The Clickity clacking of the tracks is relaxing too.
BUT
When we are working on the layout we like listening to the Lionel Nation sound tracks and the music from the 1969 movie, "Battle of Britain".
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