Favourite Railroad Songs

[Bee]

A couple of trips back, I was humming the song "The City of New Orleans" whilst gazing out the window at some old mining towns. The Conductor heard me and joined in.....The trips usually run in around 500-600 miles, into the night, so that many of the descriptions ring familiar to me

 

[Jimklag]

A couple of trips back, I was humming the song "The City of New Orleans" whilst gazing out the window at some old mining towns. The Conductor heard me and joined in.....

Johnny Cash's version of Wabash Cannonball.

 

[diane]

The Fiddler's Anthem - the Orange Blossom Express (or Cannonball), Florida's famous passenger train:

 

[diane]

And, gotta have Roy Acuff's version!

 

[JOHN42768]

"I've been working on the railroad". " She will be coming around the mountain"

 

[Jimklag]

The Fiddler's Anthem - the Orange Blossom Express (or Cannonball), Florida's famous passenger train:

The best fiddle song ever.

 

[diane]

Here's the best banjo picking song by the best banjo picker - who wrote about a train break down!

 

[JOHN42768]

Forgot "John Henry, Steel Driving Man"

 

[Bee]

Here's the best banjo picking song by the best banjo picker - who wrote about a train break down!

I did not know that the "break down" involved a train -- excellent! I love the song and I am glad that we can legitimately include it here

 

[captaindrew]

A couple of trips back, I was humming the song "The City of New Orleans" whilst gazing out the window at some old mining towns. The Conductor heard me and joined in.....The trips usually run in around 500-600 miles, into the night, so that many of the descriptions ring familiar to me

Great song, I kind of like the Willie Nelson version myself. My favorite was The Wreck of ol 97

 

[diane]

I did not know that the "break down" involved a train -- excellent! I love the song and I am glad that we can legitimately include it here

Just squeaked by! Break-down does have a few meanings in that tune. I'm going with train!

 

[MRB1863]

Kinda ironic how some of the best songs out there involve:
Trains
Pick-up trucks
Old Dogs
Ex-wives
Rainy Days

 

[kholland]

A couple of trips back, I was humming the song "The City of New Orleans" whilst gazing out the window at some old mining towns. The Conductor heard me and joined in.....The trips usually run in around 500-600 miles, into the night, so that many of the descriptions ring familiar to me

My favorite "train song" of all time. I saw Steve Goodman at a bluegrass festival in 1976 in Galax, Virginia (North Carolina/Virginia border) and have a photo I took backstage of him and fiddler extraordinaire Vassar Clements. Also liked John Prine' s line "Mr. Peabody' s coal train done hauled it away" in his poignant song "Paradise"'

 

[Bee]

Kinda ironic how some of the best songs out there involve:
Trains
Pick-up trucks
Old Dogs
Ex-wives
Rainy Days

We will have to stick with Trains, though, because ever vigilant eyes will be ready to put us in Campfire Chat purgatory, otherwise known as slow death for a thread.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Blackfoot - 'Train Train'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[Hawkeye Brehm]

I was making my then-girlfriend mac & cheese a few years back, and for no particular reason I started singing, "I've Been Working on the Railroad" as I stirred the pot. I hadn't been with my girlfriend very long at the time, but I think it gave her an idea of what kind of guy she was dating.

 

[USS ALASKA]

Marshall Crenshaw - 'Who Stole That Train?'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[USS ALASKA]

Ozzy - 'Crazy Train'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[Hawkeye Brehm]

Ozzy - 'Crazy Train'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

Now, that's more like it!!!! *throws up the devil horns*

 

[USS ALASKA]

Dwight Yoakam - 'A Thousand Miles From Nowhere'

Cheers,
USS ALASKA