Songs about trains.

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PanzerJohn
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Songs about trains.

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Here's a bit of fun for a wet afternoon, how many songs can you name with something about trains in the title or lyrics, I'll start with these,

Chattanooga Choo Choo Glen Miller

Locomotive Breath Jethro Tull

Princess of the Night Saxon..

The train kept a rollin Tiny Bradshaw..covered by many others.
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The runaway train - vernon Dalhart
Rock Island Line – Lonnie Donegan
I had to check who sang the runaway train, I remember the song though. Showing my age !
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Linda Ronstadt - Life is like a mountain railway.
Linda Ronstadt - The Blue Train'
The Goons - The Collapse of the British Railways Sandwich System'
ELO - Last Train to London'
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The Jam - Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
The Who - 5.15
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The Monkees. Last train to Clarksville
The Allman Brothers Band. All night train
Jimi Hendrix. Hear my train a coming
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Freight Train - Nancy Whisky and Chas McDevitt
Runaway Train - Roseanne Cash
Runaway Train - Soul Asylum
Little Black Train - Freakwater

and that's about it from me - unless I resort to the internets for a complete list. There's bound to be one.
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Little box of pine on the 7.29 - Hank Snow
Long train running - Doobie Brothers
Casey Jones - Johnny Cash
Last train to San Fernando - Johnny Duncan & the Bluegrass boys and Lonnie Donegan
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'John Henry' (trad) try and hear it in the 1940s recording by Paul Robeson.
'Wabash Cannonball' Roy Acuff and the Smokey Mountain boys.
'The Slow Train' Flanders and Swann.
'I'm a Train' Hammond and Hazlewood.
Not songs, but music:
'Pacific 231' by Arthur Honegger.
'Kobnhavens Jernbane Damp Galop' by Hans Lumbye
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Only 1 that comes to mind, Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne
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Mainlines by the Doctors of Madness

End of the Line by The Travelling Wilburys
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City of New Orleans by Willie Nelson
Fireball Mail by Roy Acuff
Night Train to Memphis by Roy Acuff
Orange Blossom Special by Johnny Cash
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Luxury Liner - Emmylou Harris from the pumping country rock album of the same name C1975.
Midnight Special - Johnny Silvo
Black Girl - Johnny Silvo
Mystery Train - Emmylou Harris
Rock N Roll Train - AC/DC

Trying to hard to get things others don't know ?
Johnny Silvo (RIP 2011) someone I've seen live many times
if you ever find the album 'Midnight Special' it's worth having !!

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Dozens of train songs available on Youtube by "Boxcar Willie", also the Singing Brakeman "Jimmy Rogers"
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"Spanish train" Cris De burgh,
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Funiculì, Funiculà...
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