Railroad Songs From the Steam Era
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Abby the Spoon Lady – Train Song.
Roy Acuff – Night train to Memphis 1943.
Andrews Sisters - On The Atchison, Topeka, & The Santa Fe 1945.
Andrews Sisters - Sentimental Journey.
The Blarney Boys – Poor Paddy Works on the Railway.
Vashti Bunyan – Train Song.
Chet Atkins - Canadian Pacific.
Chet Atkins - City of New Orleans.
Chet Atkins - Engine Engine No. 9.
Gene Autry – Waiting For A Train c.1929.
The Beerbellies - Slow Train Through Arkansas.
Joe Bonamasssa – Slow Train.
Boxcar Willie – Wabash Cannonball.
Carter Family – Wabash Cannonball.
Johnny Cash – Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Johnny Cash - Casey Jones.
Johnny Cash - I've Been Working On the Railroad.
Johnny Cash - Come Along And Ride This Train.
Johnny Cash - I’ve Got a Thing About Trains.
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues.
Johnny Cash – Legend of John Henry’s Hammer.
Johnny Cash - Locomotive Man.
Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special.
Johnny Cash - Ridin’ The Rails.
Johnny Cash – Rock Island Line.
Johnny Cash - This Train is Bound For Glory.
Johnny Cash – Wabash Cannonball.
Rosanne Cash - 500 Hundred Miles.
Patsy Cline – Life’s Railway to Heaven.
Rosemary Clooney, Harry James - On the Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe.
Altha Lynn Cook – Old Big Red.
Walt Cook - Goodbye Cleveland.
Elizabeth Cotton – Freight train.
Jim Croce – Railroad Song.
Dulcimore Dan Cox - Ridin' The Zigzag & Wobble Railroad.
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Midnight Special.
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Marrakesh Express.
D-E-F
Vernon Dalhart – Wreck of The Old 97 1924.
Doris Day - Sentimental Journey.
Delmore Brothers – Freight Train Boogie 1946.
John Denver - City of New Orleans.
Lonnie Donegan – Rock Island Line - 1961.
Duke Ellington – Take the A Train.
Keith Emerson and Oscar Peterson - Honky Tonk Train Blues.
Ella Fitzgerald – Take the A Train.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs – Big Black Train.
Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs - Last Train To Clarksville.
Tennessee Ernie Ford - John Henry.
Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons.
Jimmy Forrest- Night Train.
Four Tops - Last Train to Clarksville.
G-H-I
Gladys knight & The Pips – Midnight Train to Georgia.
Steve Goodman – City of New Orleans.
Grateful Dead – Casey Jones.
Buddy Greene – Life’s Railway to Heaven.
Buddy Greene – Orange Blossom Special.
Stephen Griffith – Around a Western Water Tank.
Guilty – Paddy Works on the Railway.
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans.
Arlo Guthrie - Hobo's lullaby.
Arlo Guthrie - Last Train To Glory.
Woody Guthrie - Farmer-Labor Train.
Woody Guthrie & Emmylou Harris - Hobo's Lullaby.
Merle Haggard - Miner's Silver Ghost.
Cory Hall - [The] Great Crush Collision March by Scott Joplin.
Don Henley – Train in the Distance.
Mississippi John Hurt – John Henry.
Mississippi John Hurt - Waiting for a Train.
Burl Ives – Big Rock Candy Mountain.
J-K-L
The Kempters – Orange Blossom Special.
Ladyva - Steam Train Boogie.
Leadbelly - I’m Leaving On The Morning Train.
Leadbelly – Midnight Special.
Liberace – I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.
Jerry Lee Lewis - Life is like a mountain railroad 1983.
Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy.
Gordon Lightfoot - Steel Rails Blues.
Little Eva – Loco-motion (1962).
The Longest Johns – On the Railroad.
M-N-O
Henry Mancini - On The Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe 1966.
Manhattan Transfer – Tuxedo Junction.
Mean Mary on fast banjo - Iron Horse.
Chuck Mead - On A Slow Train Through Arkansas.
Mississippi Fred McDowell - Freight Train Blues.
Johnny Mercer, The Pied Pipers - On the Atchison, Topeka & The Santa Fe.
Glenn Miller Orchestra - Chattanooga Choo Choo w/great classic movie clips.
Roger Miller - Engine Engine No. 9.
Roger Miller - King of the Road.
[The] Monkees - Last Train To Clarksville 1966.
Vaughn Monroe - In The Middle Of The House - nice whistle.
Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans.
P-Q-R
Oscar Peterson – Night Train.
Pistol Pete – Midnight Special 1926.
Elvis Presley - Mystery Train.
Lou Rawls - Cool Train.
Steve Reich’s Different Trains (Documentary).
Steve Reich – Different Trains (Abbreviated Version).
Steve Reich – Different Trains (Full Album).
R.E.M. – Driver 8.
Reina del Cid – Big Rock Candy Mountain.
David Rhodes - Honky Tonk Train.
Jimmie Rodgers – Waiting for a Train 1953.
S-T-U
Santana – Choo Choo.
Pete Seeger – Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Pete Seeger - Hobo`s Lullaby.
Pete Seeger – Paddy Works on the Railway.
The Seekers - This Train.
Brian Setzer - Mystery Train.
Peter, Paul & Mary - 500 Hundred Miles.
Peter, Paul & Mary - This Train.
Dinah Shore & Ella Fitzgerald - Sentimental Journey 1963.
Paul Simon and Willie Nelson - Homeward Bound.
Hank Snow - Ghost Trains.
Hank Snow - Wreck of The No. Nine 1963.
Marty Stuart – Freight Train Boogie.
Tarheel Slim – Number 9 Train.
B.J. Thomas - Most of All.
Robin Thompson - Ridin' The Zigzag & Wobble Railroad.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train is Bound For Glory.
Paul Tremaine & Orch. – I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.
Tuba Skinny – Number 9 Train.
V-W-X-Y-Z
Doc Watson - Blue Railroad Train.
Doc Watson - Freight Train Boogie.
Doc Watson - Southbound.
Hank Williams, Sr. – Lonesome Whistle.
Hank Williams, Sr. - [The] Old Log Train.
Hank Williams, Sr. – The Devil’s Train.
Unknown - I've Been Working On the Railroad.