Harold S. Ludlow - Sounds of Steam Locomotives No. 4: Great New York [CD]

Folkways Records

Artist: Harold S. Ludlow

Title: Sounds of Steam Locomotives No. 4: Great New York

Condition: New

Format: COMPACT DISCS

Release Date: 2012

Label: Folkways Records

UPC: 093070615526

Genre: Sound Effects

Album Tracks

1. Introduction: Hudsons
2. Hudsons and Mohawks
3. The Commodore Vanderbilt: Local Trains
4. The Prairie State
5. Locals: Pacific Type, Twentieth Century
6. Misc. Trains
7. Morse Telegraph Sounder: Fast Speeding Trains
8. Misc. Trains

Recorded and annotated by Harold S. Ludlow in 1958. The album intersperses the Steam Locomotive sounds with spoken explanation by Ludlow of what each sound is. He opens the album stating that: "This recording has been prepared to preserve the sounds of that great fleet of New York central trains when steam was king of the rails." Liner notes include brief recording information, train details and photos.