Wabash Cannonball Roy Acuff with Lyrics

Wabash Cannonball by Roy Acuff with Lyrics

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[crankbv1]

As an unashamedly True Brit' l don't have a natural affiliation for all things American. But l have to admit,they made the best damned locomotives ever seen on the tracks and this one is my favourite. lt's almost certainly UP Challenger 3985 and a short clip of a 21 minute video shown elsewhere on the tube and well worth a visit. Nice to know that this one at least will never see a breakers yard. lt's too famous now for that to happen...thank god.

[FiftyCaddy]

My great-great-Grandfather worked for the GM&O when diesels were just coming onto the railroads. Worked as a fireman, then a steam engineer, and the last couple years of his career a diesel driver. He got my grandpa interested in trains when he was about 5. My grandpa did the same to me when I was 4 or 5. I guess trains run down every two generations in our family. I'm 14 now, and still carry a strong interest in them.

[adam31acac]

Classic

[Ed Miller]

interesting you using UP 3985 as the background

[johnnyghee]

lonesome hobo squall....

[John Duffy III]

Wow, what a awesome Wabash Cannonball song by the late Roy Acuff!

[Sam Krieger]

Wabash RR ran Detroit & Chicago to St.Louis & Kansas City. Ran their freight trains faster than most("flying like cannonball") to compete better. 1949 streamlined passenger train (Det-St.L) picked up the name, but hobos sang about fast freights they rode in 1920s&'30s. 60mph, wooden box car, archbar trucks, 39' jointed rail, steam powered...exciting!

[1943Grandpa]

And we know that girl from Tennessee was really pretty. He doesn't even have to say it. Mastery.

[zipper179]

Some of us in my family worked on the railroad; my father worked as a water boy, and, I think one of my uncles was a Pullman Porter.. Now, those guys really saw the USA! They were the nucleus of our African-American middle class..

[Samantha Herat]

Can't beat the traditional sound of country from this era with the peddle steel & fiddle tow instruments you don't hear much of today & its sad.

[John West]

Yeah, once upon a time there was one in Santa Barbara, CA., where hobos could legally come and camp out. Some went on to become famous and important figures in American history. Please don't hold me to this, but I think American icon Art Linkletter was once a hobo and a Supreme Court justice, too. Think I'd better shut up here, lest I post somethin' not quite accurate.

[John West]

(cont'd) With so much about security this, security that, you can't sit inside the terminals anymore. But back then, we'd imagine hopping aboard one of those luxury liners pulling into the station. The bathrooms were something to see and some still are in mint condition.  If you ever visit Portland, OR., ask if you can go upstairs and see the bathrooms. They're just as I remember them when I was a kid. Shucks, those kinda bathrooms, too, are a thing of the great American past!