The Freight Hoppers are an American old time string band, formed in 1992. Their repertoire includes music that was first recorded in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and spans geographically from Mississippi to West Virginia Based in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, The Freight Hoppers draw from rural southern music for their inspiration.
The band were featured on Garrison Keillor's nationally syndicated radio show A Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio in 1996, winning second place in the show's Talent from Towns Under 2000 contest. They recorded two albums on Rounder Records: "Where'd you come from, Where'd you go?" (1996) [1] and "Waiting on the Gravy Train" (1998).[2] The Freight Hoppers reformed in 2007 after a five-year hiatus during which fiddler David Bass underwent heart transplant surgery.
The Freight Hoppers third album is 'Mile Marker',released in 2010.
TheFreightHoppers are an American old time string band, formed in 1992. Their repertoire includes music that was first recorded in the late 1920s and...
Typically, hoppers will go to a rail yard where trains stop to pick up and unload freight and switch out crew. They will either board a freight car in some...
hoppers. Covered hoppers, though, are still in widespread use. These are known as "Dual-purpose" hoppers, a type of the car referring to coal hopper car...
Look up hopper in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hopper or hoppers may refer to: Hopper, Illinois Hopper, West Virginia Hopper, a mountain and valley...
referred to as "hopping". Most hoppers sneak into train yards and stow away in boxcars. Bolder hoppers will catch a train "on the fly", that is, as it is moving...
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some of the heavier loads formerly assigned to two-bay hoppers to be assigned to larger, more efficient three-bay hoppers. Some covered hopper cars retain...
As of September 2019, the following artists were signed to Rounder Records. The following is an incomplete list of artists who have released records on...
College. Gellert is a former member of theFreightHoppers. From 2003 to 2009 she performed and recorded with the all-female old-time band Uncle Earl. In...
classified accordingly as passenger cars or coaches on the one hand or freight cars (or wagons) on the other. Passenger cars, or coaches, vary in their internal...
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hoppers. Unlike normal hopper wagons, however, their discharge cannot be controlled and the entire load must be dropped. To unload the flaps on the side...
freight wagons of a variety of types including ballast hoppers, grain hoppers, bulk mineral hoppers, and intermodal flat wagons of varying lengths and carrying...
Smaller numbers of older HEA hopper were used for industrial coal users. 40 MEA wagon conversions from redundant four wheel hoppers were ordered from RMS at...
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freight cars, and 645 locomotives. Other major car types owned include covered hoppers, open-top hopper cars, and gondolas. It primarily serves the petroleum...
tonne capacity grain hoppers built by Alstom at the Ballarat North Workshops, second-hand grain hoppers from FreightCorp, and the conversion of surplus...
“Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant ” (TVSZ) is a Russian freight car manufacturer, the largest in the CIS. Launched in January 2012, Tikhvin Freight Car Building...
The following is an incomplete list of works by American painter Edward Hopper. Van Allen, Peter (August 28, 2013). "Museum to raise up to $28M on sale...
the six trucks that make up thefreight train: three boxcars called Rocky 1, Rocky 2 and Rocky 3, a brick truck called Flat-Top, an aggregate hopper called...
around the seas. Some of these indices are also used to settle Freight Futures, known as FFA's. The most famous of the Baltic indices is the Baltic Dry...
railway, either specifically for running on the rails, or for maintenance or up-keep of a railway. Freight car (US) Goods wagon (UIC) High speed train...
the freight cars. Clerks in Mojave had miscalculated the weight of the train, while the engineer and crew at the head end were unaware that one of the rear...
freight trains on the West Side Line, cargo unloading from the busy Hudson River piers, and the lack of suitable warehouse facilities.: 140–151 The situation...
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