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Last Summary Update: 08-17-2024

Train Whistles
Airdate: Thursday - February 13, 1975

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(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

What do you say, huh? I just don't like fooling around. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - - ]   
  Shep is not a railroad nut (but talks a lot about them). He plays recordings of Rocky Mountain train "chimes" and "horns."      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 12:42	This is WOR New York, by the way, speaking of great sounds. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 12:47	Viking Press	"All Aboard with E.M. Frimbo"
• 13:40	Schrafts Candy's
• 14:42	Broadway Play	"Pretzels"
• 15:13	Shopwell Supermarkets
• 28:17	Village Voice
• 28:50	General Tire
• 29:53	WOR Radio Promo	WOR Bridal Fair Feb 15-16
• 30:33	The Metropolitan Opera

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 28:15	Herb Squire
• 06:42	Leigh Brown

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		February 13, 1975	Train Whistles	Original Airing

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group D	111Aa	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