Passenger Trains > Night Time On The City of New Orleans

"Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning.
Through the Mississippi darkness, rolling down to the sea". 

Yes, I know this is not the City of New Orleans, nor was this photo taken in Memphis, but there's just something about photographing a matched IC-painted, sitting on ex. IC trackage that made this tune flow through my head... (My apologies to Arlo Guthrie and or Willie Nelson, whomever, or whichever version you prefer.)

1. SLRG 515 sits idle at Horn Lake, MS - awaiting a Sunday morning departure for the Grenada Railway's 2016 Batesville Express - 10/22/16

Thanks for looking,
-Dalton 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/26/16 00:12 by CP_M260.

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Beautiful shot.

Amazing! Even the stars in the night sky are so clear. 

Very nice. bob Jordan

I prefer the Johnny Cash version, thank you.

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Really great shot.

Ronda Thomas

That's a really nice image and a fitting tribute to Steve Goodman the composer and original performer of the song who left us all too soon at the age of 36. He passed in September of 1984 just four days before his beloved Cubs clinched first place in the NL East.

Beautiful.  Anyone thinking IOTD?

John

I think Arlo Guthrie did it best, but you hear Willie Nelson sing it the most.

kevink Wrote:
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> That's a really nice image and a fitting tribute
> to Steve Goodman the composer and original
> performer of the song who left us all too soon at
> the age of 36. He passed in September of 1984 just
> four days before his beloved Cubs clinched first
> place in the NL East.

Is there any truth some of his ashes found their way to Wrigley Field?  It's been mentioned for years...

LocoPilot750 Wrote:
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> I think Arlo Guthrie did it best, but you hear
> Willie Nelson sing it the most.

I agree on Arlo

Lackawanna484 Wrote:
> Is there any truth some of his ashes found their
> way to Wrigley Field?  It's been mentioned for
> years...

In 1988 (when I was living a couple of blocks from Wrigley), Harry Waller (a fellow songwiterand friend of Steve) was involved in getting a film cannister of Steve's ashes buried or scattered  on or under the warning track in left field, according to Clay Eals who wrote the definitive biography of Steve called "Facing the Music."  The bio has the train story.....

I like the Cash version best. Great shot there kiddo.

Pump

Yup, that's a pretty baller shot.  Get any BBQ while you were down there?

- Jeff

Fantastic shot Dalton!

Hope that you had a Great chase of this train. Nice to see guys in Mississippi:}

Agreed.

​Victor A. Baird
​http://www.erstwhilepublications.com

LocoPilot750 Wrote:
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> I think Arlo Guthrie did it best, but you hear
> Willie Nelson sing it the most.

You get a double A+ on this one: one for the shot & one for that perfect musical drop-in! I've known the Guthrie version the longest (since it was first released in the fall of 1972). So that's the one I'll side with, but on the C/W side I would take the "Man in Black" version over the "Red-headed Stranger"...

DJ Sir L

santafe199 Wrote:
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> You get a double A+ on this one: one for the shot
> & one for that perfect musical drop-in! I've known
> the Guthrie version the longest (since it was
> first released in the fall of 1972). So that's the
> one I'll side with, but on the C/W side I would
> take the "Man in Black" version over the
> "Red-headed Stranger"...
>
> DJ Sir L

Agree.  The Guthrie version is the best known as the Cash and Nelson versions were covers.  
(A coiver is a song done by someone then rerecorded by someone else.  It's very common,
especially in country music.)  And I always preferred Cash to Willie, a great song writer and
a way overrated vocalist, IMHO.  And I played his stuff for 30 years.  

Nick Tharalson,
Marion, IA

If you've ever heard the version Steve Goodman performed and recorded himself, you'd notice it's much more up-tempo than Arlo's take on the song.

​I once heard Goodman interviewed on WGN radio and in that conversation he said he never really liked Arlo's version, but considering Arlo's version went pretty far up the charts in 1972 I imagine he disliked it all the way to the bank.

​NZ

Just play the song (I like Willie Nelsons version best, sorry). Killer shot bro!
mg8711

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