Railroad-radio versus Ride-of-the-Valkyries

“Norfolk Southern Milepost 253.1, Track Three; no defects.”
It’s Saturday, the day the classical-music radio station out of Rochester, WXXI-FM, airs programs I can’t stand, particularly opera.
350-pound stringy-haired blonds screaming Ride of the Valkyries at the top of their lungs. Stabbings, murders, star-crossed lovers jumping off castle parapets into roiling ocean.
Lineside defect-detectors are what railroads used to retire cabooses. Brakemen and the conductor rode the caboose, and kept an eye out for hot wheels and dragging equipment on their train ahead. They also monitored brake-line air-pressure, but an end-of-train radio thingy can do that.
(Norfolk Southern is the railroad. It operates what once was the Pennsylvania Railroad over Allegheny Mountain.)
On Saturdays I have WXXI on until 10 a.m., when the programming I can’t stand begins. Opera begins at 1 p.m.
A while ago a friend mentioned his joy attending a concert of Schubert’s song-cycle. So I YouTubed Schubert’s song-cycle.
“Only one problem,” I said. “They were singing.”
Yodeling and bellowing and sopranos screeching to the stratosphere. “Uh-ooooh; they goosed her again!” About all I can stand is Pavarotti singing “Nessun dorma”. He actually seems to enjoy it.
That railroad-radio is via my ‘pyooter. It’s from Cresson, PA. It’s “westslope.pls;” I play it with iTunes.
There also is streaming railroad video. I play that too. I can monitor railroading up the west slope of Allegheny Mountain. I’m a railfan, and have been well over 70 years.
Fairly often my brother-and-I — he’s a railfan too — go to Altoona PA to “chase trains.” We take along our railroad-radio scanners, so “Norfolk Southern Milepost 253.1,” etc, is much more pleasing than some 350-pound stringy-haired blond screaming Ride of the Valkyries.