Daddy whats a train

[@Alapaloozalover2000]

This is one of my favorite sequences in the whole “I Love Toy Trains” series. I just love seeing those old steamers and I have since I’ve gotten the DVDs when I was a kid! While I’m glad a lot of steam locomotives made it into preservation, I’m really upset for those we lost to the cutter’s torch. Boy, what I would give to actually see a real New York Central Hudson!

[@weylinwest9505]

Same!

[@Cantu2001]

Nostalgia!!! Huge blessings to our long distance train engineers who keep things moving!!!

[@apricotandwesternrailroad5662]

I grew up listening to this song and I still listen to it today. Thank you Utah Phipps for Daddy what's a Train! 🚂

[@jakebate1533]

I remember watching this video in "I Love Toy Trains #3" (VHS). 🚂📼

[@Quantum_Magnus]

I remembered this from when I was younger also. ❤

[@BritanniaPacific]

Thank you Tom Mccomas for being such a big part of our childhoods and introducing us to great railroad themed music at an early age. Your work remains timeless for all of us railfans and model railroaders. Tom Mccomas 1938-2024

[@davidsnidertechandmore1940]

Don’t delete this music video This is from my childhood

[@kevinmills8437]

Yes Sure.

[@davidsnidertechandmore1940]

This song really touches my heart and it has a special place in it too

[@jessconover1390]

My favorite train song of all time

[@kevinmills8437]

That Song is Utah Phillips From I Love Toy Trains 3.

[@kinkle_Z]

Yes...Bruce Phillips...my old roommate in Saratoga Springs Wildflowers Co-op...He used to sing this back then. Along with Rosalie Sorrels, he was one of those old "original" Woody Guthrie era folksingers. And he took me to Rounder Records to record my banjo version of "Bread and Roses." He was a UNION (IWW) man!! He ensured that we enlisted!

[@davidsnidertechandmore1940]

It’s very Emotional song for me

[@TrainGuru]

You deserve more subs. Amazing content. Hope you reach 1,000!

[@nathangitz2674]

It's really kinda sad when you analyze the lyrics; the singer's grandchildren are spoiled with modern stuff, like baseball. Even though the singer remembers vividly about how he saw trains by the dozens in his time when he was young, trains are becoming an increasingly rare sight these days. So he's puzzled as to how he should explain all of this, despite the overly fond memories; chances are that if he were to simply explain by words, his kids STILL wouldn't understand what a "train" really is. So he drives his kids to the depot in hopes of helping them understand, even though he knows there hadn't been a single loco for years. In a sense, this song can also be a metaphor for modern folks not knowing or unable to appreciate what their elders grew up with back in the day, further supported with the lyrics, "I guess the times have changed and kids are different now; some don't even seem to know that milk comes from a cow".

[@traindev1]

Bro really said modern stuff like baseball

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

this says a lot about society

[@danielwalton9012]

L&N 1992!

[@memoriesforever4776]

Nice video

[@jamesbelcher8509]

0:51 [train chugging]

[@kevinmills8437]

1:55 Norfolk & Western J.

[@danielboone3770]

😍😍😍😍😍🤩🤩

[@danielwalton9012]

Uh! Um! EX C&O 2716?

[@kevinmills8437]

Southern Pacific Alco Pa A-B-A 2:03-2:05.

[@sebastianfloyd372]

3:05 See You Next Time At I Love Toy Trains Part 4

[@danielwalton9012]

But I'm Working The Next Engine! What Will it b?

[@trainfan998]

Why didn't anyone save at least one Hudson.

[@mistgate]

About 15 4-6-4 Hudsons survived, but none of them were the NYC Hudsons

[@camelback5924]

The president of the New York Central thought having the name attached to steam locomotives would make the company outdated and wanted everything scrapped, the only two big NYC steam locomotives that are left are because of sheer luck and one of them being donated directly from the Central

[@Jeisr4207-bc5ui]

@@camelback5924 Wrong, it’s because the NYC (along with other eastern railroads that aren’t the C&O or the N&W) were going bankrupt