DUnno where Thornton is in Texas, but if you're close enough to the DFW MEtrosprawl, you may be able to go to 95.3 on your FM radio dial & pick up KHYI-FM (The Range)- got more Texas music that you can shake a stick at! Go to 95.3 The Range , click on the Listen Now button on the top left of the page, and listen to Internet straming of genuine Texas music. (no- I don't work for these guys, nor do I get any money for plugging their station- I know what I like, and don't mind telling others about it if they're interested). "Oh I'm a panhandlin', man-handlin', post- rollin', high-rollin', Dust-Bowlin' daddy. And I ain't got no blood veins, I just got me four lanes, of that hard Amarillo highway.." -Robert Earl Keene
All the train songs from Cash, Acuff, Rodgers! If you would like to download the MOST incredible instrumental version of Orange Blossom Special; go to MP3.com and under downloads type in the song title in the search box in the upper right corner, then click songs and look for the version by Heidi, Stef, and Bow Triplets. You can FEEL the train building speed , climbing a hill and roaring down the other side. It gives me goosebumps!
If I listen to anything in the train room, it is mostly talk radio, especially plays or serials, or documentaries, political discussions, etc. Music may range from Mozart, through the Stones, to Shania Twain, and many other songbirds - but DEFINITELY NO BOY BANDS!
I'm actually pretty open minded towards music, but I tend to prefer rock, as some of the faves I listen to the most show: Nirvana Soundgarden System of a Down Alice in Chains Rage Against The Machine Audioslave Transplants Korn Tool Ice Cube Queens of the Stone Age Occasionally, some older stuff by Prince, Morris Day and the Time, James Brown, and Otis Redding has been known to pop up on my cd player from time to time (hey, I said I was open to all kinds of music ).
I'm actually pretty open minded towards music, but I tend to prefer rock, as some of the faves I listen to the most show: Nirvana Soundgarden System of a Down Alice in Chains Rage Against The Machine Audioslave Transplants Korn Tool Ice Cube Queens of the Stone Age Occasionally, some older stuff by Prince, Morris Day and the Time, James Brown, and Otis Redding has been known to pop up on my cd player from time to time (hey, I said I was open to all kinds of music ).
Crikeys!!! Remind me not to be in on your switching sessions!!! </font>[/QUOTE]If I'm on a local, switching somewhere, and I hear Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" rolling out of the speakers, I'm getting the heck outa the way!
easy frisco, u need to beware when you here soft and mellow music, that is when the dynamite has short fuse!!!!!, BTW you know of any good hobby shops besides discount in addison??????/ adios wyatt
The Smiths,Morrissey(The Smiths are my fave band ever...of all time...),Pulp,Gary Neuman,Public Enemy,Digital Underground,Patsy Cline,Hank Williams...I mostly listen to Alternative music,not alternative like 3 doors down or Nickleback,the stuff they try to pass off as alternative on The Edge in Toronto.(edge of what?Boredome?)Alternative like Belle and Sebastian. I keep hopeing there will be a revolt against FM radio...The result will be instead of playing Like a Stone by Audio Slave 5 times in a 8 hour period ,they will play it only twice,and the other 3 times,play something more obscure. I am lucky to be within recieving range of a college station,so when they are not playing jazz or crazy techno,I am usually listening. How did I turn this into a rant about radio..? [ 13. May 2003, 02:06: Message edited by: Dangerboy ]
On the contrary, my good friend, I like to listen to that soft stuff- switching on the Spring River while a Nickel Creek tune is playing, running the mainline to Leo Kottke- Ozzy just ain't my idea of mellow, I wanna REALLY start shoving cars!!!!! And I LIKE Ozzman and Billy Idol. ALso, sometimes on 95.3 FM (KHYI), I'll hear the KCS whistle past the building the station is in- it's the Wells Fargo building in Plano, but I call it CP "The Range" As for other hobby shops, the other closest one I know of is Silver Spike Hobbies Hobbies in Denton, and M-A-L Hobbies on Lee St. in Irving (it's in downtown Irving, on a side street next to the tracks used by Trinity Rail Express). The former is on 523 N. Elm, just south of Texas Women's University and the intersection with US 380. The latter is found by taking Loop 12 (Walton Walker Blvd.) south of the Airport Freeway (or north of Tom Landry Freeway, I-30) to FM 360, exiting off & turning west. The road will make a little jog left & then right, and watch out- Lee Street is a little side-street that deadends on the TRE RoW. Turn right on Lee- M-A-L is up a little bit to the right. Model railroading and train-watching- how can ya beat that??????? Perhaps the folks over on the Ft. Worth side can tell us of some hobby shops their way. [ 13. May 2003, 07:56: Message edited by: friscobob ]
A man after my own heart!!!!!! Welcome to Trainboard- there's a cold Shiner (or Dr. Pepper if ya don't drink beer) in the icebox for ya!!
I'm new to this but Five For Fighting's Superman--(It's Not Easy) is also one of my favorites. Also, whenever "Luckenbach, Texas" comes on, both cats run into the room and lie down and listen. When the song is over, they leave the room. This only occurs for this one song, any other Waylon Jennings song they leave--weird!
Favorite tunes for the train room are from Dave Mathews' Crash album. Seems like I can put that on, get to work, and not even realize an hour (or more) has passed! When I'm out railfanning, and chasing in particular, I usually lean towards modern rock... Dave Mathews, Blues Traveler, Foo Fighters, and my favorite U2.
Hey, I'm with you for a revolt against FM radio. The local rock station here, KROQ, seems to be in a rut too. While I like Audioslave (who doesn't like Chris Cornell's vocals?), I don't want to hear "Like a Stone" every other hour - if I did, I'd just pop in their CD. That, and they love to play Red Hot Chili Peppers - they can't seem to go an hour without playing something from those guys.
I have a lot of my favorite tunes on Yahoo!Launch- you pick the songs and the genres you want to hear, and delete the ones you don't. You DO have to wade thru a bit of crap, but like the optomistic little kid in the room full of horse manure, you'll find the pony in there. The local "schlock & hurl" station loads us up with boy bands, pretentious girl singers, and lame rap acts. I don't even bother listening anymore. Even in the van, it's either The Range or talk radio on WBAP-AM.
You may be right, since Digno has trackage rights on several Class 1s, and that IS KCS's track that goes by the Wells Fargo building. BTW, that line was once owned by Cotton Belt, and ran from just a little south of Mt. Pleasant west thru Sulphur Springs, Commerce, Greenville, Wylie, Plano and Grapevine to Ft. Worth. KCS uses it to get its trains to & from Alliance Yard to points east (Shreveport, Vicksburg, Meridian and east on NS to Atlanta) As for Clear Channel, they do not own The Range, thank goodness. Nor do they own 93.3 FM (The Bone), a real tail-whoopin' classic rock station in the Metrosprawl.
Right on about the Bone and the Range!! Do you ever see any DGNO or TNER(same RR now) trains in Sherman?
Oh yeah- the depot (the former T&P freighthouse) is in downtown Sherman. Tower 16 (at the SP/T&P crossing) is gone, and the diamind taken out, so Teener/Dingo engines have to do a little dance up one leg of a wye, then back down another leg to get to the depot. Motive power is four-axle, with GP38s and GP40s being the norm (right now, a GP38 painted in Teener colors paired up with a Dingo GP40). Two pairs of six-axle diesels are kept for the Royse City rock train, and are stored up in Denison on the weekends. Two Helm SD45-2s and two SD40-2s of UP and CNW heritage, repsctively (still in the colors, but lettered for lessor CEFX) haul rock. An Indiana & Ohio (IORY) GP40 is used with the SD40s. Behind the Teener depot are stored several Geeps which will never run again, plus an NS GP40 (high-hood and black, ex-N&W) which is supposed to go somewhere else, but owner RailAmerica seems to be in no hurry to move it on.
