Train wreck on the C&O Oct. 23, 1890 . . .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_One-Forty-Three
Carter Family - Engine 143 . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4a2XB_dAUhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy4a2XB_dAU
Joan Baez - Engine 143 . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CHSv4-wpxMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CHSv4-wpxM
"Proud to be born for an engineer on the C&O road to die."
Ace posted:Caution: may be too radical for geriatric types
Ooops, this tune has already been posted but this version has video with train scenes.
Are you kidding? That's mainstream now, some of the geriatrics filled the stadiums. An "Oldies station" around the campfire classic. 
Just good sense to mention the Carter family in any musical topic
I've bean thinkin', ouch,.. no,
it's the song, the "too much fun" look, it hurt
ekaz posted:My vote is for Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
Ed Kazarian
If I gott'a pick just one, I'm goin' with Ed! 
by Billy Strayhorn. Song (Duke Ellington's signature song) • Learn this tune for your train room. / I have been trying....................................... On Trumpet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=233JpqXqOQw
Casey Jones
Terry Danks posted:ekaz posted:My vote is for Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
Ed Kazarian
If I gott'a pick just one, I'm goin' with Ed!
Me Too.
If you ever need to look up train song, Wikipedia has a List Of Train Songs. I've used this to create a playlist on an MP3 player that I use in my train room.
Here are just a few of my favorites:
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
Tommy Dorsey - Down By The Station (the original)
Chop Choo Boogie by Manhatten Transfer has my vote.
Now for a rendition by the true composer of A Train...
My vote is for City of New Orleans. No better story teller than Steve Goodman.
"Trains" by the British progressive band "Porcupine Tree". What I like about it is that the trains form the background of a story line that is slightly disturbing. Mainly I love the music. The live version from Chicago is the best one on Youtube.
If you are a You Tuber, check out all the special editing.
Gary
I might have missed it but for me it's Mystery Train by Elvis.
842 posted:I might have missed it but for me it's Mystery Train by Elvis.
That's the "Train I ride" too
Freight Train -- Rusty Draper
Canadian Pacific -- Hank Snow
The City of New Orleans. Very sentimental and brings forth the sad demise of passenger car railroads. In America.
Smokestack Lightning by Howlin Wolf https://youtu.be/09j6vMdKi3E
Another vote for City of New Orleans. My fave version is sung by Willie
Crazy Train by Ozzy! Although, my dad listened to Wabash Cannonball a lot when I was a child. I have a soft spot for that tune.
For the words, and for those hurting and wanting to change, my favorite song is "Another Train" by the Poosies. For just the melody and lilt of the music I like either "City of New Orleans" or "Wabash Cannonball". The train song that I never could quite adjust to the melody of is "Rock Island Line"....
Don't forget the MTA Song. It was a Boston campaign song that became a hit.
All aboard again: "Chattanooga Choo Choo" • Sung in German, at a Jazz Festival.
Also take note of the couple dancing.
Gesungen von der Band Swing Tanzen Verboten, Augsburg, beim 35. Bayerischen Jazz Weekend am Neupfarrplatz, Regensburg, 10. Juli 2016
Gary - Took German in High School, Easy "A" my mother spoke German.
I can't listen to "The City of New Orleans" with out getting all misty-eyed.
O.K. Now I see another thread emerging: How many of us watched Captain Kangaroo just to see the Lionel trains? Anyone have any info or memories about his layout?
For an instrumental, it's gotta' be "Night Train" as performed by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra.
Crank
Guess for me I have to add my vote to Arlo doing 'City Of New Orleans' ... the line that gets me every time:
'The sons of Pullman porters & the sons of engineers ride their fathers magic carpets made of steel'
One I haven't seen is 'Train Leaves Here This Morning' by the Eagles. I also have very vivid memories of my Father In-Law listening to Roy Acuff perform 'Wabash Cannonball', he loved it.
bd
Woo Woo Train-The Valentines
El Numero 6-Bobby Rodriguez. If you can understand Spanish it's about the New York City Transit Authority 6 subway.
tripped over this today..
THIS TRAIN - ROY ORBISON, JOHNNY CASH, CARL PERKINS, JERRY LEE LEWIS
Don't forget Orange Blossom Special
I do not have a single favorite railroad tune or song. But I do have a favorite album and I do mean an LP record in all its vinyl glory. From the bicentennial year (1976 - I'm dating myself), it is "Col. Hal Carstens presents This Train Is Bound For Glory" featuring Dan Igor Glenn. Mr. Glenn has a great baritone voice and the instrumental arrangements are some of the most appealing I've heard. Interspersed among the songs are railroad sounds, many of which feature specific steam locomotives at work, which is appropriate since the recording was put out by Semaphore Records which specializes in railroad sound recordings. Two of the railroad sound tracks I've come to really appreciate are from the old Pennsylvania Station New York with the various named trains and their station stops and destinations being called out on the public address system and East Broad Top 2-8-2 No. 14 making a station stop with the baggage car being loaded and a conversation between the train's conductor and a railroad official. The conductor's "All Aboard" with the steam locomotive's starting chuffs with a bit of driver slippage is classic.
Anyhow, my favorite song from that album mainly because of the way Dan Igor Glenn sings it so evocatively is "Streamline Cannonball."
Roy Acuff
It's a long steel rail and a short cross tie.
I'm on my way back home.
I'm on that train, the king of them all,
That Streamline Cannonball.
Chorus:
She moves along like a cannonball,
Like a star in it's heavenly flight.
The lonesome sound of the whistle you love
As she travels through the night.
I can see a smile on the engineer's face,
And although he's old and gray,
A contented heart, he waits for his call
On the Streamline Cannonball.
Chorus
The headlight beams out in the night,
And the firebox flash you can see.
I ride the blinds. It's the life that I love.
Lord, it's home sweet home to me.
I don't think I saw it posted......Can I get some love for "Locomotive Breath" by Jethro Tull?
Always thought this song was outstanding. I likened it to the opening of Jaws with the tease, then crescendo of sound.
All the songs mentioned are good - the best is the one you like the most.
I also don't believe this was mentioned, "Big Railroad Blues" by the Grateful Dead:
"Well my mama told me, my papa told me too
Now my mama told me, papa told me too
Well I shouldn't be here tryin' to sing these railroad blues"
Paul
As long as Grateful Dead is in the mix, let's not leave out "Monkey and the Engineer".
Ed
"Tonight I'm Gonna Ride" by Chris Jones
Baby Likes to Rock It.... by the Tractors
Re the general topic of favorite railroad-themed music...
Check out the September issue of TRAINS magazine.....by the 'other' publisher.
Really, really good info about the composers, singers, trains of fame, etc., etc.
(Sorry....one of those Gimbel's vs. Macy's moments. Just trying to help the topic along, folks.)
KD
Religious Song warning! This is one of my favorite songs of all time, much less railroad related.
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