These are original recordings from the 40s and 50s when trains were powered by steam locomotives. This Audio CD includes steam passenger trains racing by at 75 mph with whistles blowing, crossing gates ringing, and first generation diesels pulling freight cars clicking and clacking over rail joints.Train Sounds is for every rail fan and the perfect add-on for model railroads. Whether for yourself or as a gift, these high-quality recordings are a nostalgic revisit to the way railroads use to sound. Guaranteed to stir memories and emotions, you will feel the rumble and maybe even smell the coal smoke!Harold Spicer was an award-winning photographer for the Baltimore News Post from 1939 to 1972. He frequented the Lansdowne station and Riverside yards in Baltimore as he ran his then state-of-the-art wire recorder. This 72-minute CD preserves a time when Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central, Pennsylvania, and Western Maryland locomotives barreled across the rails of the Eastern US.