We’ve been through this before, but we might need an update. What happened to the song and romance of railroading? Ya can’t catch out on them easily today (try an auto rack), but a lot of the the older songs were about departures and movin’ on. While Mama hated diesels so bad… (was that Comannder Cody or Little Feet?) "The Th
rill Is Gone" . Although I tell people that I’ve never met a train I wouldn’t ride in, on or under, and CSX sends trains pretty slow on beautiful days in back of my workplace, I don’t think I’ll do that anymore.
Anyway here are some of my favorites:
Steel Rail Blues/Hank Williams/makes you ache
Panama Limited/Arlo Guthie
Woody Guthrie
She Caught the Katy/Taj Mahal and earliers, but his version kicks
Johnny Cash
Rock Island Line/ Leadbelly, Mississippi John Hurt and others
The Monkey and the Engineer/Jesse Fuller
Take the A-Train/Edward “Duke” Ellington
Panama Limited/Tom Rush
Cliickety-Clack/Rahsaan Roland Kirk
What was that Runaway Train thing on the country stations about 8 years ago? Linda Ronstadt maybe?
Bluegrass…Seldom Scene… Boy o Boy o Boy
Yers
rixflix
aka Captain Video