A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....03-07,08-06....All Aboard!

Billie

[Billie]

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day

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In September, 1825, the Stockton & Darlington Railroad Company began as the first railroad to carry both goods and passengers on regular schedules using locomotives designed by English inventor, George Stephenson. Stephenson's locomotive pulled six loaded coal cars and 21 passenger cars with 450 passengers over 9 miles in about one hour.

I am fascinated by trains. I love to ride on them. When I was a little girl, my teacher took our whole class on a short ride (about 20 miles) on the train that came through our small town every day. Ever notice, especially in small towns, how the engineer always waves at the cars waiting for the train to pass at a railroad crossing? :)

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Songs are written about trains. Movies have been made about them. The first western to tell a complete story in film was "The Great Train Robbery" filmed in 1903 in New Jersey. That movie started a great relationship between trains and movies that still survives 100 years later.

"The General" (1927), a comedy starring Buster Keaton, was regarded as one of the greatest of all silent comedies - and possibly the best train film ever made. It was a Civil War adventure-epic classic made toward the end of the silent era. Posters described the slapstick film as: "Love, Locomotives and Laughs."

Trains were a big factor in several of the James Bond movies, most notably: "From Russia With Love", and "Live and Let Die."

Here are a few more movies either written *about* trains or, as noted above, were a big factor in the storyline. The list is by no means complete, and most of them I've neither seen nor heard of, but for what it's worth, here they are....in no particular order:

• Silver Streak ~ 1934
• Union Pacific ~ 1939
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Von Ryan's Express
• Strangers on a Train
• The Lady Vanishes
• Son of Frankenstein
• Sherlock Holmes in Washington
• Terror by Night
• Ticket to Tomahawk
• The Great Locomotive Chase
• The Narrow Margin
• North by Northwest
• The Train
• Orphan Train
• Terror Train
• Chattanooga Choo Choo
• Back to the Future Part III
• Runaway Train
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles ~ 1987
• Throw Momma from the Train

These are but a few songs I found about trains. I'm sure you can all add many, many more to the list. I've listed only those I could link to music - mostly midis, but the last one is an mp3 - and still a favorite of mine: "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

"Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"
"Casey Jones"
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
"City of New Orleans"
"Freight Train"
"Honky Tonk Train Blues"
"King of the Road"
"Last Steam Engine Ride"
"Night Train"
"Orange Blossom Special"
"Wabash Cannonball"




~ Gladys Knight and the Pips ~

Finally, let me close with a link to an inspirational album by Country & Western Singer, Randy Travis. You should be able to view the titles of the songs in the album; and hear clips of those you might be interested in.

"Glory Train, Songs of Faith, worship & praise" ~ Randy Travis

12-28-05 ~ Hall of Fame #14

THIS WEEK'S THREADS 03-06-06 Military Monday

Opinions by our own 'King of Ping' Every Thursday at the Finest The guy's good, folks!

[Mrs.Nooseman]

{{{{{HUGS}}}}} back at you and you are welcome.:)

[DollyCali]

Hi.. just back fron doc appt w/uncle & for a change we were in & out pretty smoothly.

anyone who is here who might know/ (pinging a few "graphic" people) would you help me out by checking something. pull up my profile page. does it have pix? On my computer it does Not (except the ones from other's FReepers servers)

but if you click & select the "show picture" , the pix DOES come up, indicating (at least to me) that that this is NOT a server problem. Doesn't seem to be a FR problem as others are posting pix just fine. If you do properties over the "missing Pix" and then put in in search line, the pix also comes up.

Ye, I have paid my bill!

I have run the spyware & avg(virus) programs while gone. AVG is still running.

This is a baffling mystery to me.. Oh, BTW.. I can post OTHER URLs (except my server DOMnia) in the tables I had set up.

[Billie]

Dolly, it's a mystery to me. Yes, your pictures started opening on your profile page. I didn't wait for all - it takes a long time on dial up.

Send me your html text in regular email for your thread?

[Mama_Bear]

pull up my profile page. does it have pix?

Yes, it sure does. All of your photos and graphics are coming up.

I have no idea why you aren't seening them. Doesn't make sense to me. :-(

[DollyCali]

Is anyone seeing (if you do you are getting a preview - hopefully - of next weeks thread) this pix? when I bring it up I get the framework(right size) but NO coloring of the table & no pix. I can get the pix by selecting View Image.

Billie & Lori.. I suspect something. This isn't an HTML issue Billie.. EMAIL in a couple.

I am needing to leave again shortly (would have been a lousy hostess today)

[Mama_Bear]

Yes, I see a pretty butterfly. I am still baffled as to why you can't see your graphics.

[Billie]

It's all there, Dolly. Your suspicions I suspect is that your pc has been hacked. :(

[Billie]

Dolly, never mind about emailing me the text, okay? I think you are probably right in what you suspect and hopefully spyblocker and virus scan will take care of you.

Look forward to the pretty butterflies next week.

[DollyCali]

I did sent Email Please let me know if it comes... this too is a "modifiable" situation I have learned. EMAIL gets "diverted" first.

[Billie]

Got your email, Dolly. :(

[MEG33]

MEG33

Bunnies in Bluebonnets

I was just playing around and look how my "mistake" turned out. *Happy Wednesday to the Finest*

[luvie]

Cute! I just love bluebonnets!

[Mama_Bear]

I got your e-mail, Dolly. All I can say is....hmmmmmmmm. Very interesting situation, but I don't understand any of it.

If you can think of anything at all that I can do to help, let me know. Sounds like you could use a hug about now. ((((((((((Dolly))))))))))

[Mrs.Nooseman]

Your mistake turned out great.

Love the Bunnies in Bluebonnets.:)

Happy Wednesday to you.{{{HUGS}}}

[MEG33]

We can learn from our mistakes! ;)

(((HUGS)))

[Mrs.Nooseman]

LOL.

We certainly can.:)

[Billie]

Hey, that's cool! Let me try one. :)

Billie

[dutchess]

Quick check in from work. So sorry to read about your 'puter problems dolly. Yikes...I would much rather have a "temporary" power outage! Your butterfly picture showed up fine here too. Looking forward to what I'm sure will be a lovely thread next week. ((((sistah))))) Back to work!... oh, and billie, your wonderful train thread deserves another day :o)

[dutchess]

Uh oh.... looks like you two are creating a new craze at the Finest :o) Too cute! Okay...off to a meeting!!!!

[Kitty Mittens]

{Sigh}, I Love Bunnies, and having 4 of them in your Picture is just too Cute, Meg! Lol, the Sweet Look on the Bunny's Face is Adorable! :)

Billie, I Lurked Here on the Finest Last Night, and Read Many of the Posts, and your Thread was Great! I myself don't Remember Ever Riding Any Train, Except for One that Used to Be at Six Flags, but I don't Know if it's Even Still There Now-a-Days. But I Almost Felt that I was on a Train Trip, as I Lurked! Thank you Billie, and Everyone, for the Adventure!