For all the hype surrounding Larry Lujack's influence (Super Jock?), I'm a bit surprised to hear his voiceovers largely consisted of call letters, his name, the current time and perhaps the song artist if there was time. Kinda lackluster from my perspective. In contrast, there have been legendary DJ's who worked their asses off with hilariouis on-air bits and established themselves as subversive radio anti-heros in order to bond with their youthful audience. Sound familiar? In my opinion "Super Jock" is what describes John Records Landecker, who was the most amazing, brilliant and talented air personality to grace the airwaves in Chicago and elsewhere. Over the course of a single evening airshift on WLS, I was sold on this guy. I read both of his books after he retired. One thing I do regret is the inexorable impact of tech progress, which has degraded radio broadcasting into a tiny fraction of it's former hegemony. I'd argue that AM broacasting is mostly dead, and commercial televsion is slowly swirling the drain. It's amazing that those talented enough to secure 4 hours of daily airtime on a 50,000 watt blowtorch - truly entertained us - not just to make a living, but for the utter glory of it. John Landecker earned his reputation and he will always be remembered as a broadcasting legend. And... sadly I think Larry Lujack got away with mostly "phoning it in." Just my two cents.
Fun Fact: Southern Pacific 4449 (Built by Lima Locomotive Works in 1941) had visited this location in Galesburg, Illinois back in 1976 while running the American Freedom Train excursion where it got to see CB&Q 3006 (Built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1930).
Good morning vetnom happy I went thare before bill retired and went there on a fild trip being a millennial and tech and trade in warm springs ga in 2009 had to leave nothing much to do
When WROQ gave up its call letters, the station in Greenville wanted to snatch them up because they knew that WROQ was a legend. So they applied to the FCC to get those call letters and their request was approved.
2:47 WGAR at the time was owned by Nationwide Communications (related to the insurance company of the same name); did they just shoutout random employees from the company like in this instance?
That transition at 2:48 is SO smooth. (But why is UP 3985 included in this when it isn’t really wearing a 611 whistle? There had been times when PM 1225 and C&O 614 wore that whistle so you should have included those.)
Although 3985 didn’t have the same whistle, it was similar because it was a Hancock, maybe even a longbell 3 chime. The whistle on UP 4014 sounds a lot like 611 when 4014 hits the lower notes on the scale. This is the first time I’ve heard about 1225 and 614 using the 611 whistle. I would have looked for videos of them to illustrate how the 611 whistle sounds on other locomotives. Thanks for the feedback.
Having worked at the station what a lineup: Lannigan/Joe Mayer/Paxton Mills/Bob James/Chick Watkins/Chuck Collier...I worked weekends Corky with my usual news guy Bob Becker..it was a magical time. I miss jingles and great personality radio
What's the old saying talking about traveling? "You missed the turn!" Living in Owensville as a 16 years, long distance veneer log hauler trucking over that terrain shown in this CGI Google Map??😅 Well? It's worth watching for sure. Over 98% of our town was spared death and destruction by the Grace of the Good Lord. Non trivia: Yep! It's 9° NNE turn's APEX was exactly where the new 18 million dollar WVX Doppler Radar was constructed 3 miles southwest in 2003! My **theory on why that deadly EF-7 twister changed direction slightly: My grandmother said the dead and the survivors found outdoors were covered in a combination of sticky orange clay and fine orange sand. The Great Tri-State Tornado crossed two major rivers being the Mississippi and Wabash Rivers. Spinning on 6 miles west and headed straight for our town it passed over sand ground approximately 3.5 miles wide. The giant twister became very heavy picking up Wabash River water and then sucking up tons upon tons of orange colored "sands" for raising watermelons, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes and various other farm produce. Attn! Coast to Coast AM; tonight's guest Cody Cassidy plans to talk about the worst tornado in American history. Live on the radio @ 12 AM News Talk 1280.com WGBF! Best, C.J.W. ** That theory was told in person to a retired NOAA Meterologist from Oklahoma City and he liked it. He was writing his book about this Tornado's 219 mile trail into America's Natural History books filled so many times with human tragedies.😪
Late 90’s to mid 2000’s was great to see the GP60s finishing out their service lives pulling pig trains, their intended role. Kings Mountain was always a great spot to watch this, especially when all the old crossings were still in use. Cool video, brings back great memories, thanks for posting it.
Kings Mountain and Grover are good places for watching trains. I’m in the process of moving, but not far. I’ll be in Gaston County about 2 miles from the NS mainline. Due to health issues I can’t guarantee that I’ll ever get out to shoot more train videos, but I’m holding out hope for the future that things will get better.
What a very handsome looking "Hudson" type locomotive, the Burlington Route rr made their 4-6-4 Hudson type engines unique being equipped with Mars lights at the front of the smoke box on the boilers. The CB&Q s 4 class Hudsons were an attractive group among the various railroads which owned 4-6-4 Hudson type locomotives during the steam era.
Should not have tampered with music i do not like t n g at all the original is good just the way it is for you to do this is makes me feel you are young and don't understand that some things you don't touch in other words if it ain't broke don't fix it im not trying to be rude just stating my preference
Actually that is from November 1984. Major changes to studio location in early 1985. Was best control room I’ve ever designed. Wish it was on the video. The 8 track production studio wasn’t shown either. It was generally locked for obvious reasons. Glad to see my office was locked on that Sunday morning as well. The other stations would have paid a fortune for the shot of that equipment rack. Their engineers were all over Don as to what we were using as they couldn’t touch us in the audio game. They were convinced we were using a beta system not on the market. Actually it was the front end of a CRL system into an Optimod 8100 which I also used prior to Charlotte when I switched WAVA to Top 40 from Rock. Then did the same in Charlotte.
Yes, I couldn’t remember when exactly the newsroom across from the AM was converted to the WROQ control room. Its design was outstanding. I do have a video of it which I’ve been unable to find. I also thought the station had the best audio in Charlotte, and I figured that Optimod had something to do with it. I got to see Don several times. I always liked him. It was fantastic to work at these legendary stations in such an excellent facility.
1:18 perfect. If I knew how, I'd modify the decoder in my Bachmann HO scale N&W J to change the whistle from the stock one to this. (the whistle chosen for the model sounds nothing like one of the J's whistles anyway)
Here are the cities : Annapolis, MO 10:58 Biehle, MO 31:41 Gorham, IL 40:04 Murphysboro, IL 43:38 West Frankfort, IL 56:43 Griffin, IN 1:22:20 Owensville, IN 1:26:35 Princeton, IN 1:30:00
I wonder why the Mississippi River wasn't shown on this "ride"? I even backed up the animation 3 times looking for it. Why wasn't it included? It's a major part of the landscape!
