im just curious as to what your favorite railroad songs are…top 10?anything…
i can’t resist Boxcar Willie…or J Cash obviously…Flat & Scruggs…so if any of you are willing to share your favorite train songs feel free~~!!![:D]
Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Grateful Dead - Casey Jones
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans
Adrianspeeder
that’s hilarious…i am actually listening to casey jones right now!! good picks more more!
I have a radio on and couldn’t think of the City of New Orleans title (I was going to hum it, but can’t do that with music playing). Thanks Adrian - I was going to call it City of Saint Louis…altogether a different train!
Mook
For old ones
Blue Yodel
Wreck of the Old 97
Wreck on the Virginian
Wreck of the FFV
and
Uncle Billy Richardson’s Last Ride
Then there’s a classic tearjerker
In the Baggage Coach Ahead
Now where did I put the needle for the gramophone?
work safe
My musical tastes are a little off the beaten path. I have to say “Swingline” by Adrian Belew - best known as one of the guitarists for King Crimson- it can be found on his album “lone Rhino”. He has a few other songs about trains that are very cool, but that one is my favorite.
Jhonny Cash
- City of New Orleans
2.Rock Island Line
Hank Snow
1.Sittin’ 'Round the Water Tank
AEROSMITH - TRAIN KEPT ROLLIN’ ALL NIGHT LONG
- Crazy Train - Ozzie
- City of NO - Arlo Guthrie
- Folsom Prison Blues - Johhny Cash
- Wabash Cannonball - Boxcar Willie
- Orange Blosom Special
- Chattanooga Choo Choo
- Ode to Casey Jones
And so many more…
LC
Rock Island Line
City of New Orleans
Casey Jones
Reuben’s Train
John Henry
Wreck of the old 97
Orange Blossom Special (or for Nora, the NORANGE blossom special [:D] )
The Wabash Cannonball
Any other song that mentions any or several of the following: Train, Railroad and/or Railway, Locomotive, Train Cars, Engine, Caboose, Coal, Steam, Cinders, ect. You get the point. [:P]
Bird song, maybe a tractor in the distance, some sheep. Insects buzzing, Brian Johnson on Test Match special on my tranny, (That’s for the English amongst you) the distant sonud of a train horn, a rush of diesel engine and then diddldy-dum fading back into birdsong
It doesn’t need any singing!
City of N’awleans-Arlo Guthrie
The Silverton-CW McCall
Wabash Cannonball-any one that does it
Pennsylvania Station-Glenn Miller
One After 9:09- The Beatles
Train Kept A Rollin’-Aerosmith
Orange Blossom Special- Flatt & Scruggs
Any Johnny Ca***rain song
The Man That Never Returned-Kingston Trio
Canadian Railroad Trilogy- Gordon Lightfoot
Steel Wheels- sung to me by my grandpa, Big Bill Hawley, Engineer for the NYC!
Tranny? stick or auto?
There was a country song in the mid 90s that was always on TNN. It was called big iron horses. Thats all i remember about it.
Adrianspeeder
Sorry Adrian, I think it got lost in translation - my transistor radio only used a stick when I wanted to hit it and it was certainly not automatic - especially on long wave [:)]
Rod Stuart with Jeff Beck - “poeple get ready”
poeple get re-ady,
for the train is com-in
poeple get re-ady
for the train is com-in
you don’t need no ticket
you just get on board
you don’t need no ticket
you just thank the lord
Riding the metro - Berlin
Good tune, haven’t heard it in years…
LC
Great song–the video is pretty is cool as well. Rod Stewart is waiting at a depot and Jeff Beck arrives on an SP local in a boxcar.Looks like it was shot somewhere in the California desert.
…Railroading Soundtrack…Don’t mean to deviate from the music but surely my O. Winston Link live recording of railroad sounds…Done on Christmas eve in rural Virginia and you can hear a steamer in the distance approaching and the whistle doing it’s part and even the church chimes then all the other close track sounds recorded raw on sight…It’s pretty awesome…!!! Purchased it new on 33 1/3 in 1958. Still sounds great as it hasn’t been played very much.
“Panama Limited” by Tom Rush. Great guitar train effects, maybe the best ever; and the haunting last line, “she’s gone everywhere but home”.
“Steel Rail Blues” by Hank Williams.