1957 O.W.Link 'Sounds of Steam Railroading' 12" 33 RPM Vinyl LP Train Record
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1957 O.Winston Link 'Sounds of Steam Railroading' 12" 33 RPM Vinyl LP Train Record - Cut by Hydrofeed.
A sound basic to American living for more than one hundred years has faded and disappeared. Few young children today have ever seen a steam locomotive. Yet only a decade ago that marvel of living power was as much a part of daily life as the rising of the sun. The transition has come so quickly that most of us fail to feel this most significant change in our sound pattern. Subconsciously we think the steam engine is still with us. Sometimes we are annoyed at the toneless blatt! of the diesel's horn and the rasping racket of the monster's movement, but nostalgia does not come until we hear again all the myriad haunting sounds of steam as recorded here.
This disc is a memorial to an era that is gone. In that sense it is a sad series of sounds, a mournful requiem. But its playing brings real pleasure to those of us who had thought we would never hear the sound of steam again—the sounds associated with good happenings of the past, times well worth remembering.
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