I have read a few stories of how trains were used at a business for work. I’ve seen pictures of food delivered at a restaurant and move some radioactive materials in a nuke plant. Thankfully not the same engine/train doing both tasks.
Toy trains? I use toy trains to gain my students interest in music through a train themed lesson. This was the first year I brought them up and it wasn’t for the lesson but… it was still for the kids. OKay, it was really for me. 
Hope you played TRAIN by BLACKFOOT, and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH by Jethro Tull?
TWo of my favorites.
laz57
don’t forget casey jones
JOHN, how did you make out with the WEAVER L1b?
laz57
What about Long Train Running by the Doobie brothers, Slow Train Comming by Bob Dylan, and Mystery Train mostly by Jerry Garcia…Once by the Grateful Dead
And TUESDAY GONE by SKYNYRD.
laz57
Mystery Train by ELVIS PRESLEY
Less we not forget Johnny Cash and Fulsome Prison. Everybody nows it’s a song about the train and not the prison.
Ok, ya got me … 1955 it was done by Elvis, origionally written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips… Performed by Junior Parker of Junior and the Blue Flames, in 1953.
LAZ isn’t old enough to know who Elvis is…I was trying to be contempory for his sake.
Kurt
Is this what you mean???
I wasn’t talking about SONGS, I was talking about the physical/mechanical use of a toy train for a real work purpose! Pay attention!
Another item to be added to the “Should be made in O gauge” list.
Yes indeed.
This is a better thread, Boyd [;)]
I’m always partial to Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Atchison and Topeka & the Santa Fe
How can I forget ‘King of the Road?’
Sorry Boyd, looks like we railroaded you…
I apologize. Other than the food service at restaurants, and trains running around places of business, I don’t know of any other businesses that put toy trains to work.
Kurt
Arlo Guthrie-City of New Orleans
Train in Vain by The Clash.
Johnny Cash had a lot of train songs. An entire album called Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers. I think it came out in 1969.
BOXTOPS Choo choo train