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Re: Songs

January 30, 2004 12:10AM
The New Mexico based group Band of Enchantment wrote and recorded a song called "Train to Chama" very recently, and marketed it on a CD with at least some of the proceeds benefiting the Friends. On Roger's site, there's a page of sound clips, including bits of "Train to Chama," and a page about the Band of Enchantment and the CD.
If you're willing to stretch it a bit, Jimmy Stewart sings a rather narrow gaugey song called "You Can't Get Far Without A Railroad" in the 1957 Western Night Passage, shot on location at Silverton and the Animas Canyon line. The song, specially written for the movie by composer Dimitri Tiomkin and lyricist Ned Washington, doesn't specifically reference the D&RG, but I think there's real narrow gauge spirit present in the second verse:
"So I bought myself a shovel and I bought myself a pick,
And I laid a little track along the Bullfrog Crick,
And I built a locomotive out of twenty empty cans,
And I tooted on the whistle and the darn thing ran!"
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Songs

Douglas van Veelen January 29, 2004 10:54PM

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James R. Temple January 30, 2004 12:10AM

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John Hillier January 30, 2004 07:25AM

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Nathan January 30, 2004 07:17PM

Life out on the Railroad

John Bush January 30, 2004 07:32AM

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Rev JJ January 30, 2004 07:36AM

The Last Ride

Bob Yarger February 03, 2004 09:35AM

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Douglas van Veelen January 31, 2004 11:16PM

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Earl February 02, 2004 09:12PM

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Rick Steele January 30, 2004 12:37PM

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Ed Lowrance January 30, 2004 03:45PM

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Douglas van Veelen January 30, 2004 09:49PM

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David January 30, 2004 10:00PM

Poetry?

Bob Yarger February 03, 2004 09:55AM

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Rick Steele February 02, 2004 06:22AM

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Douglas van Veelen January 31, 2004 11:11PM

Silverton Train *LINK*

John Kelly (K-36 487) January 31, 2004 01:49PM

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John Hillier January 31, 2004 10:17PM

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Douglas van Veelen January 31, 2004 11:13PM

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