You thought the Rock Chalk Chant was the signature sound of Lawrence, and that Allen Fieldhouse was the premier place in the city.

You haven’t been on YouTube enough.

On that bastion of video variety, the Rock Chalk Chant can’t compete with the lonesome whine of a train whistle, and you’d swear that all of Lawrence is not abuzz about the action at the Fieldhouse but rather about the rumblings at the Don Ball Curve.

I said the Don Ball Curve.

Geez, you really need to get out more.

We’re talking about trains here. Freight trains, Amtrak trains, trains that rumble through the Don Ball Curve, also known as the section of Union Pacific Railroad track adjacent to the Lawrence Visitor Center in North Lawrence.

Oh, sure, that Don Ball Curve, you say.

Here’s why were talking about trains today: Lawrence apparently is a magnet for train videos. In a recent search of the phrase Lawrence, Kan., on YouTube, 18 of the top 100 search results were of videos showing trains rolling through Lawrence. In a year when our beloved Jayhawks won both a national championship and the Orange Bowl, who would have thought the ‘Hawks would have been outdone by a train? But so it was. The Jayhawk basketball team showed up eight times in the top 100. The football team got blanked.

But it wasn’t a complete loss. A scene of Massachusetts Street following the KU/North Carolina Final Four game popped up as the top video.

Here’s the best of Lawrence on YouTube:

• Best dedication to train videography: With the titillating title Southwest Chief East of Lawrence, you knew you were in for a treat. The video doesn’t disappoint. It is a good 15 to 20 seconds of a train coming — and then going. But to get a full appreciation for the piece, you have to read the small text description that accompanies the video: “Train No. 4 was about an hour and a half late this morning.” Wow.

• Best Missouri insult: There’s about nine minutes of video from the movie “Ride with the Devil.” It shows the scenes leading up to and including William Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence. The character playing Quantrill tells his “troops” in an effort to evidently inspire them: “The best of us are dead. We’re just dogs chased into the woods.” First of all, take a Zig Ziglar class. That’s terrible motivation. But the best part comes in the viewer comments. The very first comment: “Dogs chased into the woods. Good way to describe a Missourian.”

• Best-laid plans of mice and men: Tornados are popular on the YouTube site. “Lawrence Kansas Tornado 2” shows good footage from the May 8, 2003, twister in the Lawrence area. But the award goes to “Tornado Warning — Lawrence Kansas 1994.” A couple of guys on a deck are watching the weather while the television weather warning is on in the background. One guys says to the other, “Where the (expletive) are we supposed to take cover?” The other responds: “Just take cover in some interior room is what they said.” Of course, this was all said from — what appears to be — a third-story apartment.

• Most disappointing use of the word frolicking: Frolicking on a video Web site. I know what you’re thinking. But this was actually some guy dressed in a straw sombrero and women’s sunglasses dancing — OK, technically frolicking — in a pasture somewhere outside of Lawrence.

Let me just say, it was no Don Ball Curve, that’s for sure.