jim pastorius posted:I think I would rather listen to my bagpipe music than steam engines. I rode in the cab of a steam engine from Cumberland to Frost burg and it didn't sound like a symphony.
Sounds like you just have no understanding of what you're hearing. You don't know what the sounds are, what creates them and what differentiates them. Which is understandable coming from someone who hasn't spent a lot of time in a steam locomotive cab.