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Thread #163138   Message #3888629
Posted By: Joe Offer
15-Nov-17 - 02:37 AM
Thread Name: North American Locomotive-industry songs
Subject: RE: North American Locomotive-industry songs
Interesting question, Bob. I looked in Norm Cohen's Song Steel Rail the bible of railroad songs, and didn't find anything. The Southern Pacific shops near me in Sacramento were substantial, but I don't know of any songs about railroad shop work.
Last year, I visited the shops of the Southern Railway (now a great museum) in Spencer, North Carolina - no evidence of songs there, either. I've been to lots of shops that are now museums - but alas, I found no songs. Maybe locomotive work isn't conducive to singing.
-Joe-