Railroad Songs

[FlyingScottmond]

haha, I was on itunes funnily though, I was listing to "Im so postmodern" and heard these lyrics:

"I'm so postmodern that I live in a tent,
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on a platform of skateboards,
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that's tied to a tram"

 

[robogo]

Long Train Running by the Dooby Brothers.

From South Africa : Trein na Matjiesfontein, Trein na Pretoria, Trans Karoo and Tussen Treine.

 

[robogo]

Just thought about anather one, in South Africa there is a band called Stimela, most of their albums (CD's) including Steam Tracks features a train on the front cover.

 

[Alco_P-A]

Remember These

Johnny Horton: Coal,Smoke,Oil & Steam,Golden Rocket,First Train Heading South
Hank Snow: Golden Rocket,Waitin For A Train,Southern Cannonball,Engineers Child,Wreck Of The Old 97,Hobo Bill's Last Ride,Big Wheels,Wreck Of The No. 9,Ghost Trains,Southbound,Crazy Engineer,Brakeman's Blues
H. Williams Sr.: Log Train,8 More Miles To The Graveyard,Streamline Cannonball,Pan American,Lonesome Whistle,Ramblin' Man
J.Cash: Casey Jones,Ride This Train,Rock Island Line
R.Acuff:Wabash Cannonball,Fireball Mail,Streamline Heartbreaker,Sunshine Special,Night Train to Memphis
Delmore Brothers: Red Ball to Natchez,Freight Train Boogie,Pan American Boogie
Grandpa Jones: Eight More Miles to Louisville,Waiting For A Train
Tony Rice: Old Train
J.D. Crowe: Mr. Engineer
Uncle Dave Macon: Railroadin' and Gamblin'
Utah Phillips: Daddy,What's A Train?
Allison Krauss: Steel Rails
Del McCoury: Trainwreck Of Emotion
Hugh Moffatt: Slow Moving freight
Tom Russell: Lord Of The trains
Peter Brown: Last Train
Doc Watson: Nine Pound Hammer
Sons of the Pioneers: When The Golden Rocket Comes Down
Guy Clark: Texas,1947
Kate MacKenzie: Pan American Boogie
Jimmie Rogers: Jimmie The Kid
Whitstein Brothers: Freight Train Boogie
Steve Goodman:City Of New Orleans
Sleepy LaBeef: Mystery Train
Carter Family: The Cannonball
Flatt & Scruggs: Big Black Train
Bob Wills: Take The "A" Train
Patsy Cline: Life's Railway To Heaven
Jim & Jesse: Bringin' In The Georgia Mail
Stanley Brothers: Train 45
Mary McCaslin: Last Cannonball
Ernest Tubb: Fireball Mail,Wabash Cannonball

 

[qassaquyangli]

Union Pacific...

Heres some Union Pacific:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj4q5Fi8dck

 

[Davie_UCF]

Trains - By Porcupine Tree
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIM5M6FmnmY

The Beeching Report - By I Like Trains
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJd9n8X9DI

Both very different songs..
The Beeching Report always makes me feel quite sad..

And Porcupine Tree are one of my favourite bands ever.. but Trains is one of my least favourite songs so must say something I guess.

 

[airtime]

Here is my favourite, The First Great Western song, country style...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBoRcBmLKyY

The song is all about the problems you may have, if and when you travel with the First Great Western

Joe Airtime

 

[nzms]

Here is one from New Zealand, a real classic:
Taumaranui on the Main Trunk Line -http://folksong.org.nz/taumarunui/index.html

 

[289v8]

"Ride this Train" by Johnny Cash (Album)
"Southern Pacific" by Neil Young (Re-ac-tor) Album
"Waiting for a Train" by Jimmie Rodgers
"I'm Movin On" by Hank Snow
"The Last Ride" by Hank Snow
"Hobo Bill's Last Ride" by Hank Snow
"Freight Train Blues" by Roy Acuff
"Night Train to Memphis" by Roy Acuff

 

[FlyingScottmond]

Jumping somebone elses train- The Cure

 

[Ronayne]

I'm not sure if its been mentioned:

End of the line by the Traveling Wilburys (My favourite song ).

 

[rjhowie]

And what about that old "classic" 'The Athcheson, Topeka and The Santa Fe'?
'Chatanooga Coo-Choo'
'Morningtown Ride' by the Seekers (from Australia) back in the 60's.
'Night Mail' From was it the 40's Great Britain? Mostly spoken to music with the train passing by on a short film. Another classic.

 

[Thad09]

How about
"Freight Train Boogie" by John Denver
"Mainline Moutain Railroad" Bob Woods
"Texas 1947" Guy Clark
"Freight Train" by Various Artis, in this case Larry Rice
I think some have been mentioned, yet they are some of my favorites!

 

[alex217]

The Yamanote Line Song by Akira Miyagawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xL-QKMvmLI

 

[sawyer811]

Dave Goulder anybody?

also, the Carnforth song is pretty good...thanks to you guys i've got it in my head now.

 

[HSSRAIL]

Parsons Kansas Blues

Bob Scobey

 

[sniper297]

Someone already mentioned CCR "Midnight Special";

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYNAF-QcPrE

Another blues song heard in the original Blues Brothers movie "She caught the Katy";

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hB3eCv_FOk

Is actually about trains, the "Katy" is the Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad, MKT also known as the "Katy". The phrase "Left me a mule to ride" also refers to a train, "mule" is slang for a slow long distance all stops train as opposed to an express train (varnish) or a commuter train (scoot).

 

[enginewhistle]

Some Aerosmith. Train Kept a Rollin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNat9XmNVuU

Megadeth anyone?? Train of Consequences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPNyqlVV2e4&feature=related

Alot of people seem to forget about those bands with all the new auto-tune and modern stuff anymore...

Original version of Train of Consequences sounds alot better then the remaster!! ...and right after I leave this thread a Megadeth advertisement comes up :hehe:

-enginewhistle

 

[pccitgo]

How about "The L&N Dont Stop Here Anymore" by Kathy Mattea or Johnny Cash.:'(

 

[captainkman]

This one's been mentioned, but I got a YouTube link:

Here's one of my new favourites that Sawyer811 told me about, The Carnforth Song, about SteamTown (The English one):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfRQp5jHNA