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Last Summary Update: 05-21-2024

Trains and Railroads
Airdate: Monday - November 25, 1974

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Now maybe you don't know that just about 6 or 7 blocks from this studio. . .

Show Description

The aural medium and sounds. Shep plays the sounds of the Queen Elizabeth as it leaves the New York harbor. Shep talks about railroads. 3 miles south of Chicago is the major railroad hub of the midwest. He reads a piece from George Ade. He talks about train accidents. How 3 students and a teacher he knew were killed in a car right behind the school. The teacher had picked up the students on the way to school. A train hits a car in the steel mill. Once while waiting at a crossing he sees a car get hit by a train and the engine goes flying up through the air. He gets out and looks for the car but can't find it. The engine lay there still smoking. Another train makes an attempt to stop for an open bridge, but the engines end up under 30 feet of water. Another time there is a head on collision between 2 trains.

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - - ]   
  The sound of the Queen Elizabeth. The commercial for New York Magazine features an article that predicts the Shah of Iran will be "king of the world" by 1978! Shep talks about railroads and reads a George Ade fable about trains. He describes a train wreck.      
  

Comments

• Shep's comments about knowing classmates and teachers that were killed by trains was recounted in an article in the Hammond Times in 1983 during a visit back to Hammond.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:35	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:44	Datsun
• 15:46	Gramercy Park Clothes
• 16:44	John Barleycorn Pub
• 17:46	New York Magazine
• 18:45	General Tire
• 37:45	Compoz
• 38:45	WOR Christmas Fund
• 39:50	Press Box Steak House

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	'Corny' - Elga Cornell Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	People		Breyfogol, Miss	She was kiiled by

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

Date	Title
November 25, 1974	Trains and Railroads	Original Airing
February 20, 1975	Trains and Railroads	WBJC Synd Replay

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	December 17, 2002

The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group B	104Cb	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975