I was driving into work this morning listening to the Classic Rock station (rock radio in NYC is really poor) and Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull came on. It's one of my favorite older songs. I got thinking about train themed songs.
So let's hear what your favorites are.
Here's a few of mine
Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull
Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead
Orange Blossom Special - Charlie Daniels Band (and many, many others)
What are yours?
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Chris here's one of my favorite's
City of New Orleans - Steve Goodman or Arlo Guthrie
Southern Pacific - Niel Young
Canadian Railway Trilogy - Gordon Lightfoot
A Man and a Train - Marty Robbins (from Emperor of the North)
Rusty
Most of them already posted are great......but pick one??? Tull Locomotive Breath.....I play that in the train room!
Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville
ELO - Last Train to London
Lostprophets - Last Train Home
Norman Blake - Last Train from Poor Valley
and the best train album cover (though no songs are technically about trains)...
and just to change the theme a bit...
NRPS - (Somebody Robbed the) Glendale Train
Doc Watson - Freight Train Boogie
& The Orange Blossom Special ...by anyone
The Locomotion - Little Eva. It hit the top 10 every time/every decade it was covered.
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie, the perfect voice for it.
Chattanoga Choo-Choo - Glenn Miller.
Tuesday's Gone - Lynyrd Skynyrd
kinda train themed, i guess
The "Orange Blossom Special" by Johnny Cash
It is hard for me to pick a favorite, But this one by Railroad Earth is up at the top.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uy1dXoSaGE
The Jupiter And The 119
Top Three for ME:
Orange Blossom Special-Johnny Cash
Wreck of the Old 97-Vernon Dalhart or Johnny Cash
City of New Orleans-Arlo Guthrie or Johnny Cash
Honorable mention goes to Wabash Cannonball by Roy Acuff
One of my favorites is the Alseep at the Wheel version of Choo Choo Ch'Boogie.
- Mike
Being from The Crescent City as we used to call it before "The Big Easy" became popular, I'll go with CITY of NEW ORLEANS by any of the fellas mentioned above. Also like the Highwaymen and Willie Nelson's renditions.
A second for me is the Elvis song posted above by Alex - great guitar...
I like the Old Californio rendition of Kansas City Southern
I can't think of a train song that I do not like. 
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" by Johnny Mercer
(as sung by Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers).
"No Train to Memphis" by the group BR5-49
"Waiting for a Train" by Jimmie Rodgers
"The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home" by just about any artist.
City of New Orleans, Willie Nelson.
Canadian Pacific, by Hank Snow.
Love in Vain by Robert Johnson. Heck, anything by Robert Johnson.
Some of my favorites are...'City of New Orleans'--Willie Nelson...'Wabash Cannonball' by either Willie Nelson or the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band...'Orange Blossom Special' by Johnny Cash...''Casey Jones' by Johnny Cash.
For sentimental reasons this is my #1, followed closely by most all those already named.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACaaAFuNHoY&feature=related
"Old Toy Trains" by Roger Miller.
Any of those Saturday night bluegrass jam-outs at Howard Zane's place in Columbia...packs more chooch into it than most folks would appreciate. But then again, mebby it's the wallpaper ! FWIW, rough cut grass and Pocahontas railroadin' just fit like a hand in a glove.
Choo Choo Charlie was an engineer...
Now you've got that stuck in your heads. 
Jumijo....that be from the Good and Plenty ad?? 
Rock Island Line --- Johnny Horton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23iCSWqrFR4
Good video with steam trains.
Just a fun song children like this one a lot.
The railroad runs through the middle of the house
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pejQAaj7MDM
Train Train by Blackfoot. Awesome harmonica solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUsxDfAaOfc
And Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightening" as done by the Yardbirds.
Jumijo....that be from the Good and Plenty ad??
And you shook you box back and forth
Among well know songs, I like Willie Nelson's City of New Orleans and the Band's The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (which mentions trains a lot).
A recent favorite not as popular, but good, is Prodigal Town by Wake the Dead ("some are awaitin' and some overtakin' the last train out of town").
Orange Blossom Special by SeaTrain
One Toke over the Line Brewer and Shipley (or Lawrence Welk if so inclined!)
Folsom Prison Blues Johnny Cash
Midnight Train to GA Gladys Knight and the Pips..
Gordon Lightfoot has 3
Canadian Railroad Trilogy, The Watchman's Gone, Steel Rail Blues.
Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans.
Fairport Convention's Traveling by Steam
Johnny Cash' Rock Island Line (Wolf remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xixLtWjXUAo
And Mike Watt's Big Train. Perhaps not the most railroady song, but comes with the weirdest video that you saw today at least. Watch before Uncle Pete has it squashed again.
City of New Orleans by either Steve Goodman or Willie. Southern Pacific Neil Young.
I was driving into work this morning listening to the Classic Rock station (rock radio in NYC is really poor) and Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull came on. It's one of my favorite older songs. I got thinking about train themed songs.
Another good railroad song by Jethro Tull is Journeyman.
That "Big Train" vid is entirely too much! Best laff I've had for at least a week...YOY !
I cannot believe nobody said anything about Hank Snow. Im movin'on or Hobos last ride are great tunes.
Hard to beat "City of New Orleans" or "Wabash Cannonball" or "Wreck of the Old 97" - but the greatest train song I ever heard was a live performance by Doug Kershaw, the Cajun fiddler, of "Orange Blossom Special." It was a long time ago in a scuzzy country music bar on the west side of Phoenix. A buddy and I went to see Kershaw perform. About halfway through the set, he launched into "Orange Blossom Special," and midway through a brilliant fiddle solo, he laid down his fiddle, grabbed a beer off the tray of a passing waitress, signaled the band to keep playing, and drank his beer. The band just kept playing the backup. After a few minutes, he drained the beer, set the empty mug on the tray of another passing waitress, picked up his fiddle, cocked his ear, and hit the solo at exactly the point where he had left off. The crowd went wild. I will never forget that. Of course it was set up in advance, but it was a brilliant piece of showmanship by one of the greatest fiddlers who ever was, or ever will be.
That "Big Train" vid is entirely too much! Best laff I've had for at least a week...YOY !
That was pretty funny! Uncle Pete ain't gonna like that!
My all time favorite is "Freight Train" by Kasey Chambers.
That was pretty cool. Whoever wrote it had good knowledge of trains.
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