"I Was Playin' On The Tracks... (Page 2): DING! DING! DING! Robg not only gets the ten points, but gets the additional five for citing Dylan AND the mention of some other covers! (If...

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

Robg wrote:

"I Was Young When I Left Home", Bob Dylan (covers by Antony + Bryce Dessner, Matthew Hornell, and Big Thief, among others).

DING! DING! DING! Robg not only gets the ten points, but gets the additional five for citing Dylan AND the mention of some other covers!

(If you convert your fifteen points into pennies, just think! You can go find yourself some train tracks and have yourself a really great time watchin' 'em get squashed!!!)

Robg

Cany143 wrote:

(If you convert your fifteen points into pennies, just think! You can go find yourself some train tracks and have yourself a really great time watchin' 'em get squashed!!!)

We did it on trolley tracks when I was young, but same idea.

Mac 52 Loc: Corona del Tucson, AZ.

Cany143 I agree, when I was a kid growing up. You could afford to put a penny on the tracks once and a while bit nock a Nickle as that was big money. That was an ice cream or a coke at least.

Try to follow your work miss some now an d then so keep up the good work. Lots of thumbs up!!!

scallihan Loc: Tigard, OR

Cany143 wrote:

Down below Pucker Pass, 'bout a mile from the Potash mines.

Ah. Near Moab. Beautiful country.

Quixdraw Loc: x

Pennies, my recollection is they came out oval. Half a buck could buy more candy than you could eat! I'd have sworn I had nearly all of Dylan ex the last several years, but apparently this was early on. Have to rummage through the "vinyl".

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

quixdraw wrote:

Pennies, my recollection is they came out oval. Half a buck could buy more candy than you could eat! I'd have sworn I had nearly all of Dylan ex the last several years, but apparently this was early on. Have to rummage through the "vinyl".

I have an early (1971?) pressing (vinyl of course) of one of the first (obviously unofficial) Dylan bootlegs --'Great White Wonder'-- ever to be released. Bought it off some guy hawkin' 'em on the street in NYC (ironically, and oh-so-appropriately, in Green-Witch Village, up the street from Gerdy's). Subsequently found and bought a few other bootlegs --GWW Vol II, The Best of Bob's Boots, etc.-- not long after at some music stores in Hartford CT and Boston. All that material (and several tons more) has since been "officially" released, but back in the day, to've had/heard some of that really early stuff was really great. Always believed the harp part Dylan played on 'Percy's Song' was about the best harp stuff that anyone ever recorded in a hotel room.

PhotogHobbyist Loc: Bradford, PA

I've played on or around a few tracks in my lifetime and even encouraged one or two of my kids to put pennies on the track to get them squashed/pressed/mashed or whatever.

Never put a quarter on the tracks to see how big it would get.

Speaking of 50 cent pieces, who has seen the old silver dollars? I just checked I have eight Sacajawea dollar coins, six presidential dollar coins, and four Dwight Eisenhower dollar coins. Not many of them still out in circulation.

Quixdraw Loc: x

PhotogHobbyist wrote:

I've played on or around a few tracks in my lifetime and even encouraged one or two of my kids to put pennies on the track to get them squashed/pressed/mashed or whatever.

Never put a quarter on the tracks to see how big it would get.

Speaking of 50 cent pieces, who has seen the old silver dollars? I just checked I have eight Sacajawea dollar coins, six presidential dollar coins, and four Dwight Eisenhower dollar coins. Not many of them still out in circulation.

Sometimes if you ask at the bank, any full sized dollars will be post silver.

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Cany143 wrote:

...ma would come and whup me back br on them trest... (show quote)

Excellent images

cmc4214 Loc: S.W. Pennsylvania

Cany143 wrote:

Hard to say which would be worse: gettin' busted ... (show quote)

Nanny Goats

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Stunning images, Cany!!

Wes Loc: Dallas

We were visiting friends in the country when we were teens. This trestle was a lark. We were in the middle when we heard the train coming.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Nice train shots, and I have no clue as to the song.

guardineer

We lived in a trailer court at Galen, MT, 1956. I was in the second grade. Our attraction was a creek, provided miles of swimming holes in the summer and miles of ice skating in winter. The Milwaukee RR paralleled the creek and crossed it several times. The Milwaukee was an electric RR. One skinny dipping day I took cover under a bridge as the train passed. Really a bad idea.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

"You can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles" a line from Peter, Paul, and Mary.