Скачать или смотреть The Royal Hudson locomotive song - Robert Swanson

The British Columbia Royal Hudson 2860 that was restored and run from 1973-2010 on scenic trips from Vancouver to Squamish.

Here is a song written about this locomotive by
Robert Swanson, a Canadian researcher and developer, and is credited with the invention of the first five and six-chime air horns for use on locomotives—the man who was the driving force behind the Royal Hudson’s restoration and whom also wrote the provincial "Boiler Code" in 1948, which also required that all locomotives running on British Columbia provincially regulated railways be equipped with a five-note whistle, rather than the three-note whistle requirement for federally regulated railway locomotives.

Swanson designed and built a large steam whistle for the mill where he worked. He also built the Heritage Horns that were on the old BC Hydro building that play the first four chords of "O Canada" at noon every day. The horns are now on the roof of the Pan Pacific hotel at Canada Place.

Swanson published four books of verse between 1942 and 1953, and also a book of logging stories, Whistle Punks and Widow-Makers, which appeared in 1993. Known as the "bard of the woods", he wrote ballads of logging on the British Columbia coast, taking the advice of Robert Service, who noted that Swanson had traveled extensively through the camps and no one else was writing about that type of life. Swanson read the poems on his weekly talk show on radio station CJOR. The chapbooks of the verses were designed to fit in racks meant for issues of Reader's Digest, found in every camp commissary.

R. Swanson b1905–d1994 🚂