Right after leaving work on Thursday, August 28, 1952, John hopped in his car and drove to Tyrone, Pennsylvania where he began to record as much Pennsylvania Railroad steam engines as possible. Known as "The Hub of the Highways", Tyrone was a big spot on the Pennsy's Middle Division trackage where the hauling of coal, iron ore, paper products and passengers occurred 24 hours a day... EVERY day. If John or anyone else wanted to make sound recordings or take photographs of PRR steam engines in action, Tyrone was the place to be.

Unfortunately, not everything went according to plan on this trip. John's "unrelenting standards" of doing everything possible to avoid making any recordings of PRR trains pulled by the new diesel engines caught up with him in a not-so-pleasant way... as you will hear.

This is part one of a two part episode featuring the recordings John made from August 28th until September 1st 1952.