Train songs

[Anonymous]

Southern Pacific By Neil young
and
Train Travelin' by Dierks Bentley & The Del McCoury Band

also Heart of Gold by Neil Young has a railroady sound to it.

[AztecEagle]

In "Urban Cowboy",Charlie Daniel's Has A Cameo appearance Where He Plays"Orange Blossom special"As well.

[AztecEagle]

"Give My Love To Rose";"Blue Train";"Train of Love";"Rock Island Line"by Johnny Cash.

"Baby Likes To Rock It(Like A Boogie Woogie ChooChoo Train)"by The Tractors.

"I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blowin'"by Hank Williams.

"ChoChoo Ch'Boogie"by Asleep at the Wheel.

"500 Miles Away From Home"by Bobby Bare.

"King Of the Road"by Roger Miller.

"Mystery Train"by Elvis.

"Mama Tried"by Merle Haggard.

"You Never Even called Me By My Name"by David Allen Coe*.

(*There's a line it that goes:"I Was Drunk,The day My Mom Got Out Of Prison.And I Went To Pick her Up in the rain.But Before I Could get To the station In My Pickup truck,She Got run Over By A Damn Old Train!!".).

 

 

 

[JSGreen]

I'm kinda partial to "The Wreck of the 'Ole 97" and "Orange Blossom Special.".

The Roy Clarke version of the Orange Blosseom Special is here:
http://www.homestead.com/deenotes/johncash.html

From that web site:

"ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL"  WAS THE FIRST STREAMLINE  TRAIN TO BE SEEN IN FLORIDA.   IN 1939,  WHILE THE AWESOME MARVEL WAS PARKED AT UNION STATION, TWO YOUNG MEN IN THEIR 20s TOOK THE PROMOTION TOUR THROUGH THE ENTIRE TRAIN.  BOTH OF THE GENTS WERE WELL-POLISHED FIDDLERS.

THEY WENT STRAIGHT HOME, AND WITHIN ABOUT 30 TO 40 MINUTES, THEY WROTE A NEW SONG THAT INCLUDED MUSIC AND LYRICS.  THEY CALLED IT "ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL. "

THEIR FIDDLE MUSIC WAS GEARED TO THE SOUNDS AND RYTHEM OF THE TRAIN.  THEIR NAMES WERE ERVIN ROUSE AND CHUBBY WISE.  THE ROUSE BROTHERS PUBLISHED THE SONG THAT SAME YEAR.

IT WAS RECORDED ON RCA RECORDS.

IN 1941, BILL MONROE  INTERTWINED THE BLUEGRASS SOUND INTO "ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL."   HE HAD A MAJOR HIT!

IN 1965, THE MAN IN BLACK STEPPED UP TO THE MIC AND ADDED HIS "CHICK-A-BOOM, CHICK-A-BOOM" SOUND.  JOHNNY CASH ALSO EARNED A #1 HIT FROM  "ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL."

THEN MR. ROY CLARK STEPPED UP TO THE MICROPHONE AND DID HIS VERSION OF "ORANGE BLOSSOM SPECIAL."   IT WAS A LIVE PERFORMANCE AT MADISION SQUARE GARDEN.  HE RECEIVED STANDING OVATIONS!

[SFbrkmn]

There are so many which comes to mind. Anything Bxcar Willie, City New Orleans by Nelson. I would say my all time favorite is Rock Island Line by Cash.

[vsmith]

Haven't we've done this topic to

 

Oh Well, I guess "I'm goin' off the rails on the crazy train...."

 

[wallyworld]

Utah Phillips "Good Though" CD is my favorite with a full track devoted to NKP 759 complete with a doppler effect like a jet on steroids breaking the sound barrier at ground level. "Tolono" and "Calling Trains' are particularly good. The whole of it is devoted to railroading. Gritty and touching stuff. Hemmingway said it best, "Man's mistress is nostalgia.."

[Pathfinder]

You should try to find "Songs and Sounds of Canadian Steam" by Dave Baker (Coast Country Productions, PO Box 439, 1195 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC Canada V6E 1N2)

Includes covers of "Canadian Pacific" and "Canadian Railroad Trilogy", some other covers, some self written and some traditional Canadian railway songs.  14 songs total and it is awesome. 

[Datafever]

What's your favorite train-related song?

My favorites include Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash, On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe as sung by Bing Crosby, and Chattanooga Choo-Choo as recorded by Glenn Miller.