Singin' the Blues or any other durn thing ya want.

[Delmonico]

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, same background, also said in the early days the jerked it out of creeks or any place they could get it.

[Texas Lawdog]

Pardon Me boy, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO! ?

[Delmonico]

Pardon Me boy, Is that the Chattanooga CHOO CHOO! ?

No it's the UP 3985 on a durn cold day.

[Ozark Tracker]

might as well take a ride with Mr. Acuff.  all aboard



Listen to the jingle the rumble and the roar as she glides along the woodland
ore the hills and by the shore
hear the rush of the mighty engine hear the lonesome hobos call
he's riding through the jungle on the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE
now the western states are dandies so the southern people say from Chicago
and St. Louis
and Peoria by the way
to the lake of Minnesota where the rippling waters flow no chances to be
taken on
the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE
she pulled in to the station one cold December day
as she rolled up to the platform you could hear all the people say
now theirs a gal from Birmingham she's long and she's tall she came down
from Georgia
on the Wabash cannon ball

VERSE
now heres to daddy claxton may his name forever stand
and always be remembered in the courts of all the land
his earthly race is over and as the curtain around him falls
we'll carry him back to Dixie on the Wabash cannon ball
on the Wabash Cannonball

[Delmonico]

I've got it by A.P. Cater, think he wrote it.

[Delmonico]

Can't forget about Hank Snow.



From old Montana down to Alabama
I've been before and I'll travel again
You triflin' women can't keep a good man down
You dealt the cards but you missed the play
So hit the road and be on your way
Gonna board the Golden Rocket and leave this town

I was a good engine a runnin' on time
But baby I'm switchin' to another line
So honey never hang your signal out for me
I'm tired of runnin' on the same old track
Bought a one way ticket and I won't be back
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away
[ guitar ]
Hear that lonesome whistle blow
That's your cue and by now you know
That I got another true love waitin' in Tennessee
This midnight special is burnin' the rail
So woman don't try to follow my tail
This Golden Rocket's gonna blow my blues away

Hear her thunder on through the night
This Golden Rocket is doin' me right
And that sunny southland sure is a part of me
Now from your call board earse my name
Your fire went out you done lost your flames
And this Golden Rocket is rollin' my blues away
[ guitar ]
That old conductor he seemed to know
That you done me wrong I was feelin' low
For he yelled aloud we're over that Dixon Line
The brakeman started singin' a song
Said you're worried now but it won't be long
This Golden Rocket is leavin' your blues behind

Then the porter yelled with his southern drawl
Let's rise and shine good mornin' y'all
And I sprang to my feet to greed the new born day
As I kissed my baby at the station door
The whistle blew like it never before
Of the Golden Rocket that rolled my blues away

[Delmonico]

(Hat off) And Hank the Father:

I have heard your stories about your fast trains
But now I'll tell you about one all the southern folks have seen
She's the beauty of the southlands listen to that whistle scream
It's that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.

She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that
whistle whine
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
your on that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.

Ohio and Kentucky Tennessee and Alabam, the delta state of
Mississippi, she's Louisina Bound, of the trains in the southland
this one is the queen, all the way from Cincinnati
down to New Orleans.

If your ever in the south lands and want to see the scenes
Just get your self a ticket on that Pan American Queen
Louiville Nashville Montgomery the cap'tal of Ala-bam
You pass right through then all when your New Orleans bound.

She leaves Cincinnati headin' down that Dixie line
When she passes that Nashville tower you can hear that
whistle whine
Stick your head out the window and feel that southern breeze
your on that Pan American on her way to New Or-leans.

[Tensleep]

I've got it by A.P. Cater, think he wrote it.

Nope...

"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Got any more of them smoky train pics, Del?

[Leo Tanner]

Hear that long lonesome train
Whistle crying in the wind
Hear that long lonesome sound
That's become my only friend

When it whispers out my name
That's when the tears begin to roll
Because the world out there awaits me
And I know it's time to go

Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind

There's a place on the horizon
And it holds a fate for me
When I hear that lonesome sound
Then I know it's time to see

Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind

Hear that long lonesome train
Whistle crying in the wind
Hear that long lonesome sound
That's become my only friend

Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train
Hear that long lonesome train whistle cry, in the wind

In the wind, in the wind
In the wind, in the wind

[Texas Lawdog]

Hank Snow  "The Singin' Ranger"  came to us via Canada.

[Delmonico]

Got any more of them smoky train pics, Del?

Smelled like fuel oil after it went by.





Servicin' it near Hastings









Lot a folks showed up to watch them lube it.

Nope...

"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated sometime in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "The Great Rock Island Route" and credited to J. A. Roff.

Thanks, wasn't sure, but I have a 1929 recording of it by AP.

[Texas Lawdog]

Del, Do you have anymore info on the steam engine and does it run on a regular basis.

[Delmonico]

Del, Do you have anymore info on the steam engine and does it run on a regular basis.

Go here:

http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up3985.shtml

It was down yer way a few days before those pictures were talen on Feb 10 2004, it was in Houston at the Supper Bowl,  will be in ST. Paul and Denver for the polly-ticks conventions this year, most times its at Cheynne.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Was that one of those really big ones that were some of the last steamers developed? Forget what they called them.......Buck

[Delmonico]

Was that one of those really big ones that were some of the last steamers developed? Forget what they called them.......Buck

Yep, build just before WWII, was built as a coal burner, changed to oil after WWII.  The Big Boys were bigger and a couple back east were about the same, these were for fast freight and fast passangers service across plains where they could open it up.  The Big Boys were just to haul coal from Utah to Cheynne, more power, but much slower.  This one is a 4-6-6-4, the Big Boy was a 4-8-8-4.

[Ozark Tracker]

I don't know where the pictures at, but my grandmother had a picture of a big train she and Grandpa had ridden back from California just after WW2 began,  when they came back to Oklahoma, she said there were thousands of soldiers on the train and it was the longest train she had ever seen. 

[Texas Lawdog]

I go up to Cheynne sometimes in the summer for Frontier Days. I didn't the engine was up there. I will go by the depot.  Thanks for the info Del.

[Delmonico]

I go up to Cheynne sometimes in the summer for Frontier Days. I didn't the engine was up there. I will go by the depot.  Thanks for the info Del.

Most times it's in the roundhouse.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Judging from that black smoke, they oughta put it back to a coal burner. Probably be cheaper to run now that way than burning oil...................Buck