Vince Pitelka on fri 9 jan 04
> For 7 years my pottery studio was 30 yards from several train tracks,
> on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe line.
> We even had our own little side track and could buy clay by the boxcar
> load and have it delivered right to the door.
> The trains never at all interfered with our pottery-making, even though
> you could feel the vibration right through the thin air as one passed by.
David -
Last night my wife and I were in a motel in Gallup NM, about a hundred yards
from the BNSF lines. Trains went by every ten or fifteen minutes all night
long, and neither of us minded it a bit. It is hard for me to associate the
term "blues" with anything having to do with trains, because I love them in
all shapes, forms, ages, condition, etc. But trains (especially freight
trains and train whistles) certainly figure large in the blues, although the
one sung by Doc Watson and others called "Freight Train Blues" isn't
actually a blues at all. A fine song though, with a great yodel.
Several years ago on my way back from the West Coast in August I stayed over
in a little dive motel in Van Horn, TX. My bedroom window was about 10 ft.
from the mainline tracks. Again, trains went by ever fifteen minutes all
night long, and you could feel your molecules rearranging. On that
occasion, I was thankful for those little expanding foam ear plugs.
- Vince
Vince Pitelka
Appalachian Center for Craft
Tennessee Technological University
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