Pan American

[Jim_S]

Pan American written by Hank Williams. The Pan-American was a passenger train operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) between Cincinnati, Ohio and New Orleans, Louisiana. It operated from 1921 until 1971. In the words of Kincaid Herr, official historian of the L&N, the Pan-American "came to be the symbol of the L&N's passenger service." The train was made famous by WSM Radio's nightly broadcast of the passing train's whistle. Some Pan-American passengers were lucky enough to sit in comfortable lounge chairs and hear the sound of their own train's whistle from a wood-cabinet table radio tuned to WSM in the observation car. The broadcasts began on August 15, 1933

Hank Williams​

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zWA9TvVC-4[/ame]

Hank Williams Jr​

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_0jFmGzoVA[/ame]

Hank Snow​

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBawvSxcN0M[/ame]

 

[Jim_S]

Another tune based on L & N’s Pan American

DeFord Bailey - Pan American Blues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjlR8eS0YPM

If you haven’t guessed among my many vices I’m a rail fan. Modeled part of the Southern Railways Birmingham yard in HO.

“The Southern Serves The South!”

1921 system map