WHAT TUNES DO YOU JAM TO WHEN RUNNING TRAINS?

Bonnie Raitt, Keb Mo, Booker T, TSO, Ronnie Earl, Grover Washington Jr., B.B. King Buddy Guy. Motown

I often open another tab while looking at the forum and pull up a you tube concert.

Today is Bonnie Raitt Road tested

Buddy Holly

Everly Brothers

Jerry Lee Lewis

Eddie Cochran

Isley Brothers

Early Motown

Country Rock

Pigpen era Dead, Yonder Mountain String Band, MOE, Umps, some Cheese and Railroad Earth was just here. So I'm smiling like a Bhudah!

XM "Escape" for sure. Good music all the time with no retched commercials.

Nick and Chris,

Great taste!   Social D. is solid choice.  I also like Mike Ness's solo album. 

Bob Woodruff. (Check out his song "I'm the Train")    Sirius XM ch. 60 (outlaw country) ch. 35 (XMU) and ch. 33 (1st wave)  is what's playing while I'm working on the layout.

It's great reading about the vast range of music taste of our forum members.

My favorite thing to listen to with my trains is a baseball game, preferably an Orioles game, but any MLB game will do.

In the off season I like to listen to BBC Radio, NPR, CNN or MSNBC

Christmas time I love the traditional Christmas music on the cable music station.

The rare times I do listen to other music its Heavy Metal, "hard rock or no rock!"

Black Sabbath (my favorite)

Motorhead

Deep Purple

Dio

Ozzy

Judas Priest

Metallica

and too many others from that era and genre to list

I do like a few newer bands too

Slip Knot

Mudvayne

Power Man 5000

and others that I don't know the names of

Ozzy's "Crazy Train" and Blackfoot's "Train, train" are my favorite train songs

Great Thread, thanks for asking!

Anything by the Moody Blues.

Richard

Booker T & the MGs, Steely Dan/Donald Fagen, The Who, Genesis, Doobie Brothers and others.

When I'm running the trains, usually nothing. When I'm working on the layout, which doesn't happen nearly as much as it should, I listen to vinyl. Black Sabbath, Rory Gallagher, Robin Trower, Dave Mason, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, Deep Purple, etc. I listen to very few bands that started after the 70s.

When the trains are running its just the trains I hear.  

When I am working on the layout I listen to a variety of things.  Sometimes it is a train related podcast such as Notch 6 or Model Train Radio, sometimes it is a train video on the tv, and sometimes it is some classic rock, such as Zeppelin, Doors, etc..

1.FM online.  Usually the 50s&60s channel, but there are over 40 channels & no commercials.

when I'm not running anything, but working on the layout, I'll listen to Sinatra,The Bickersons,Homer and Jethro,Glenn Miller, all on vinyl.

Very good choice, I have been listening to the magnificent 7 albums (starting with Nights) for over 40 years and they are still some of the best ever, IMHO. I can still listen to these from beginning to end and fully enjoy them. There was some incredible music "back in the day". What happened? Or am I just old?

Some chooch, as well as some people, are best expressed musically. When I think of the PRR T1 Duplex, she's best expressed in a jazz format. There are a number of different players and bands that will do it. Think Spyro Gyra, Brian Auger, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, just to name a few.  Same thing true with my favorite person, and for a lot of the same reasons!

Most everything from 1957 to 1964, my favorite years in music.  

brings to mind.... a line.... senior citizens wish they were young!

I think I have seen them 15-20 times over the years. great show, even saw them twice in the same day!. they played a 3 PM and 8 PM show and we went to both.

I have a few tunes with my layout videos…

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Cutting edge, left all the classics for another day.

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My taste in music is probably quite contrary to what you'd expect from a white, middle aged railroad enthusiast from the suburbs. A few examples:

Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here

Gandy

Disco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! terry

Oddly enough for me it's Christmas music (with my favorite group being Mannheim Steamroller) when I'm building animations or working on a layout. My favorite time of the year is Christmas and what better way to have it everyday is with Christmas music. But every now and then I may pick out something different from my giant music collection. I enjoy all kinds of music from the 50's up to today's music.

But when running trains I do not need music, I just take in the sounds coming from the rails. 

I am open to just about all kinds of music except for country and rap, can't tell you why....  But, while either running trains or building the layout I usually listen to hard rock and heavy metal.

Right now I'm listening to:

Black Sabbath - 13

Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators - Apocalyptic Love

Accept - Blood of the Nations

Anthrax - Worship Music

Megadeth - 13

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Paul

When I am building layout pieces or Repairing or Customizing Engines it is Box Car Willie/ Eddie Arnold/Glenn Miller/ Scatman Crothers or Train Songs from the 40's up to say the 80's and Ragtime and Blues and Jazz

At Christmas time when running the Trains it is 1950's Christmas Music with bits of current time tunes added in.

What was the purpose of this question? I don't get it.

When working on the layout it is a mix of classic rock and 40's swing music.  We running train, it is the sound of the trains that is the music.  

Night Wish when I'm alone.  

Greg

That makes two of us...

The sounds of postwar engines and rolling stock running on tubular track is music to my ears.

Gotta be Bluegrass!

I play music for a living.  And I have three teenaged daughters.  NO MUSIC IN THE TRAIN ROOM!  Or on my boat for that matter!

Jon

While working on the layout at the Choo Choo Barn during the winter months, I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, cranked up to get the naysayers here "cranked up".  For inspiration in my workroom at home, I actually listen to two different Walt Disnet World Park CDs.  For some reason or another the WDW CDs get my creative juices flowing. 

15 Beers Ago.  What else?

Pete

One at a time for me, I can't multitask.  It's either trains or music.

I can understand why Jon you would not play music in your train room because it is all around you every day at work, but no boat?

We love our XM Escape in the house, in the train room, in the cars, and yes, in our BOAT. My boat came with a satellite radio, but I did not use it until Sirius and XM combined and offered Escape on the Sirius channels. Now it is on all the time on the boat. Just love it!!!!!!

Being serious or facetious?  I'm surprised anyone here is familiar with a black metal band. 

--Greg

Why only when you're alone? 

--Greg

Met Opera on Saturdays, anything classical from Baroque to Copeland, to ragtime, to swing, to 50's & 60's rock, to the Roches and K.T. Tunstall any other time. The last two guarantee I'll be left alone.

Nothing.  I can't imagine playing any music loud enough to be heard over the roar of the trains.

Times change, forum participation changes, the mood of the country & hobby changes...or not.  This is of course a reliable, if not annual thread. Fascinating to see how the responses to this thread changes over time. Happy listening all! 

(& well done OGR team letting this now edgier thread run) .