I remember the original Penn Station very well, and it definitely had way more than 29 tracks. It was an amazing place, and its demolition was unforgivable.
Careful. You will talk folks out of heading back home to Tennessee. I know I hesitated.
One of Dr Freud’s first patients was very uncomfortable, until he suggested that she just lie down on the couch and say whatever came into her head. She started to talk, at first haltingly, then growing more comfortable, speaking compulsively, and she suddenly became terribly self-conscious and asked, “Pardon me, Freud, but is my chatter really cuckoo?”
On the set of the “Thin Man” movie, a prop man noticed Myrna Loy carrying a swatch of material, and asked, “Pardon me, Loy, is that the shantung that’s the new clue?”
At the zoo, an unkempt gnu was sitting morosely in a corner of the cage. Outside the cage was a bamboo shoot with teeth marks; a visitor saw that, and thought the gnu might have thrown it out of the cage, and asked the attendant, “Pardon me, boy, is that the shoddy gnu’s bamboo shoot?”
[sub]From NYTimes Magazine, January 19, 1975[/sub]
Pshaw. Every East German knows that it’s not the Chattanooga Choo Choo, but rather the Sonderzug nach Pankow. 
'Way back before we met, fella bilong missus flodnak took a seven-week backpacking trip around South America. The highlight of the trip for him was Machu Picchu. While many people like to hike up along the Inca Trail, my fella and his travelling companions decided to take the train. Yup. Really. They took the Machu Picchu Choo-Choo.
… is this the lair of Great Cthulhlu?
In the city of slime,
Where it is night all the time…
I just sorted by song on my Ipod. I have Chattanooga Choo Choo three times. Twice by Glen Miller (different recordings) and once by Asleep at the Wheel.
Round Midnight comes in first with four copies: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, and Stanley Jordon.
Oops. Stardust ties for first with four copies: Louis Armstrong, Dave Alexander, Stan Kenton, and Willie Nelson.
How mundane and off-topic is that?
But “Track 21 / Boy you can show me some fun” didn’t play in Peoria.
Say what?
Regina Carter has a cover of Chattanooga Choo Choo without lyrics.
Lamont Cranston discovered that someone had stolen his favorite piece of candy. He sent out his assistants to find. Moe Shrevnitz, his driver, spotted a blond teenages with something that looked like the purloined sweets, and eating one of them. He pulled up his taxi and said, “Pardon me, goy. Is that the Shadow’s nougat you chew?”
No good can come from this punnery. 
I love them. Keep them coming…
It’s flummery! Danged flummery!
Besides, Lamont Cranston may not really be the Shadow’s secret identity, but a red herring.
Are you crazy??? Just think of how much revenue iTunes will lose if EVERYBODY stopped listening to it!!!
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They could have just said “track number nine” and retained the meter of the song. Or, if it’s a really small station the lyrics could have read, “track number two, I’ll shine up your shoes.”
Track number nine would work. However, it’s clearly the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, so it’s far from being a “really small station”.
That reminds me, when a Star Trek star decided to go hardcore Orthodox, the only place he could find to suit the strict cooking requirements was an apartment in London, but it had no carpeting, fixtures, or ceiling texturing. People who wondered if that was also a religious requirement asked “Pardon, Nimoy, but is a flat that nude what Jews choose?”
I think we just entered an alternate dimension with that one…