Rusty Evans - ¡Let-'Er-Roll! Ballads Of The Railroads download mp3 flac

Tracklist

A1	Louisiana Short Train
A2	I Made An Old Freight Railroad Bell
A3	Let Me Hear That Old Whistle
A4	Wabash Cannonball
A5	Fillimeoor-Eay
B1	Daddy Roll 'Em
B2	She's Gone, Gone, Gone
B3	The Longest Train
B4	Wreck Of The "97"
B5	Rock Island Line
B6	Five Hundred Miles

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MVM 142	Rusty Evans	¡Let-'Er-Roll! Ballads Of The Railroads ‎(LP, Mono)	Mount Vernon Music	MVM 142	US	Unknown

Notes

LP liner notes:

In the United States the first line of rails in the New England states is said to have been laid down in 1826 and 1827 at Quincy, Mass., to serve a granite quarry. Early roads were worked either by gravity or by horses and mules. On 8 August 1829, an English-built locomotive, the Sourbridge Lion, was tried out in Honesdales, Pa. A year later Peter Cooper of New York, successfully operated his small experimental engine, rated at about one horsepower, on the B & O Railroad. It traveled 13 miles in less than an hour, going 18 mph at some points and pulling a carriage with 36 passengers. American-made locomotives gradually took on characteristics that have distinguished them from those of Europe. Typically early American innovations were the pilot, or cowcatcher, placed to remove obstacles from the track, the bell and the heavy whistle, the cab to protect enginemen from severe winters, the sandbox from which sand was spread on the tracks to maintain traction on heavy grades, and the use of leading tracks for guiding locomotives on sharply winding tracks.