railroad songs

[Anonymous]

what are your favorite songs that remind you of railroading and locomotives?

[FThunder11]

California Zephyr by hank williams! Have that one on my ipod! (even though he calls it the Union Pacific queen)

[JoeKoh]

wow this topic has been here before but for your benefit
long train runnin-doobie brothers
wabash cannonball
boxcar blues-boxcar willie
city of new orleans-arlo guthrie
im a train -albert hammond
chattanooga choo choo-glen miller
all night long(train kept rollin)-aerosmith
tuesdays gone-skynard and remake by metallica
cant you see-almond brothers
night train-guns and roses
casey jones-grateful dead
just to name a few
stay safe
Joe

[trainboyH16-44]

You'll be suprised. Lucky man by whoever it was. (ooooh, what a lucky man...he was)
I was remembering a tiny bit of it and trying to figure out what it was whilst railfanning the CP.
#2: The trainman song from the atlas website
If I think of more, I'll let you know.
Matthew

[espeefoamer]

Casey Jones.

[FThunder11]

I know there is a song about the texas eagle.(ask zach, aka UPTRAIN) he knows

[chad thomas]

I don't know but............When I hear that whistle blowin'....I hang my head and cry....

[Anonymous]

Here's a goofy one I used to hear my bus driver singing in highschool.

"Ohhhhhh, a peanut sat on a railroad track, his heart was all a flutter. Round the bend came a choo choo train, TOOT TOOT PEANUT BUTTER!"

[swg]

[Kurn]

City of New Orleans-Arlo Guthrie
People Get Ready-Curtis Mayfield
And not about trains per se,but I've always liked Big Rock Candy Mountain,written by a boomer named Harry McClintock,aka Haywire Mac.

[TrainFreak409]

"Train Travelin'" by Dierks Bently.[:D]

I hear you train, are you travelin' my way? Let me ride your rails, back to yesterday. Who knows what I can see from that old time machine. But there you go again train travelin'. There you go again train travelin'!

[Anonymous]

"City of New Orleans" as orginally written and performed by Steve Goodman, although Arlo's version is hardly any different.

[Anonymous]

In order......Choo choo Chaboogie, Chatanooga choo choo, City of New Orleans, Big Railroad blues, Mystery train, and about 100 more...and to JoeKoe "Can't you see" is a Marshall Tucker tune, and a great one at that

[UPJohn]

Definitely Casey Jones!

And also Canadian Railroad Trilogy by Gordon Lightfoot

[trainboyH16-44]

We learned a new one in Musical Theater last week, it's called freedom train, it makes a great round, and always reminds me of 4449 in the freedom train colours.
This old freedom train is such a long time in the coming
There aint no-one can't afford it so you'd better get on board it
Gimme that free-edom
Gimme that free-edom
gimee that freedom freedom freedom
choo choo choo( whil making piston motions)
Matthew

[siberianmo]

[2c] On the subject would be:

Willie Nelson's "City of New Orleans"

Gordon Lightfoot's "Canadian Railroad Trilogy"

Those two work for me all the time! [tup]

[miniwyo]

It may be kind of odd but that Johnny Cash song that goes "I hear the train a comin, comin round the bend..." What is name of that song?

[Anonymous]

Wabash Cannonball.

I also like "Wreck of the ol' 97" by Johny Cash.

If it's a train song, I like it!

Beethoven wrote a piece of music called "The Steam Locomotive" I read.

[trainboyH16-44]

oh, forgot the canadian railroad trilogy! Thanks! I'm going to lisdten to it now....
"There was a time in this land when the railroad did not run
When the something great white mountains stood alone against the sun"
Beethoven write something about steam engines? But he died in the early 1800s....
Matthew

[Anonymous]

The lead in song at the beginning of the first Blue Brothers movie is titled "She Caught the Katy", one of my favorites. Look it up, its a good song. Long Live The Rock!!!!!
Scott

[Anonymous]

there was that episode on the beverly hillbillies where jed and family, together with flatt and scruggs hung out in the foyer of the mansion and did train songs for about twenty minutes. that was pretty cool.

[Anonymous]

Joe Perry Project: Rockin' Train, that song reminds me of railfanning on the BNSF (formerly BN and SP&S) line in Pasco, Washington on Highway 397.

[Anonymous]

To miniwyo, that Ca***une is Folsom Prison

[Murphy Siding]

Wow! It's like deja-vu all over again.[;)]

I was drunk, the day my momma got out of prison........
And I went to pick her up in the rain.......
But, before I could get to the station in my pickuuuuuuup truck,
She got run over by a d-a-m-n-ed old train.......



by David Alan Coe

[Anonymous]

Even thought this is a truck song, "six days on the road" also reminds me of diesel trains

[Anonymous]

Very interesting and informative subject , long black train wasn't mentioned as it is one of the most recent one that was song lately, Maybe I will try to find a train albumn cd,
for a nice christmas present on my list .

[PigFarmer1]

Casey Jones--Grateful Dead. It doesn't get any better.[{(-_-)}]

[Anonymous]

Beethoven and others wrote some mighty powerful music before trains were invented. Somebody later invented the form of transportation that matches the music. But just for kicks listen to Beethoven's Bagatelle in C, Op. 33, No. 5, and visualize a pinball game with a stuck ball on the last play. Sorry to be off topic here but had to get that out since somebody mentioned Beethoven.

[Anonymous]

"I hear the train a'coming, it's coming round the bend . . . " is the first line of "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash.

One song I remember in particular from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES was called, I think "The Wreck of Old No. 97." It ends with the gruesome lines "He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle/A-scalded to death by the steam." [xx(]

I like "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" as a swing song, but it has an inaccuracy. People on that train were unlikely to eat their "ham and eggs in Carolina" because the best routing to Chattanooga from the north was Washington-Lynchburg-Roanoke-Bristol TN/VA - Knoxville-Chattanooga (other trains went on to Birmingham, Memphis and N.O.).

Has anyone mentioned "Midnight Train to Georgia"?

allen

[Anonymous]

Modern classical music reminds me of Arthur Honegger's "Pacific 2-3-1." (He was referring to the standard Pacific 4-6-2 configuration; on the continent they only count the number of wheels visible on one side or the other.)

[Tulyar15]

Yes, I like Honegger's "Pacific 2-3-1". In England the LMS Railway had a piece of music composed for the launch of its "Coronation Scot" streamlined express train which I;ve also got in my CD collection. I've made my own railway CD with those two pieces and the theme from the Titfield Thunderbolt.

A modern composer , Steve Reich (American-Jewish) has composed a piece called "Different Trains" which I like too.