I was going to add Driver 8 by REM but somebody beat me too it. Here is the video to show they have an appreciation for the topic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuFId1RYSZE Here is my "Trains" MP3 Playlist....everything I could find train related, good or bad, in no particular order. Aerosmith - Train Kept a Rollin Arlo Guthrie - The City of New Orleans Creedence Clearwater - The Midnight Special Johnny Cash - Folsom Prision Blues (my 6 year old son's favorite) Blackfoot - Train Train Glenn Miller - Chattanooga Choo Choo (happens to be a ringtone on my phone) Smash Mouth - Road Man (you have to listen to find the train reference.) Tractors - Boogie Woogie Choo Choo REM - Driver 8 Cat Stevens - Peace Train Soul Asylum - Runaway Train Gladys Knight - Midnight Train to Georgia Steve Windwood - Night Train Clash - Train in Vain Guns N' Roses - Night Train Procol Harem - Whiskey Train Ozark Mountain Devils - Chicken Train Bob Marely and the Wailers - Stop that Train Led Zeppelin - The train kept a rollin' Lost Prophets - Last Train Monkeys - Take the last train to Clarksville The Farm - Groovy Train Grand Funk - The Locomotion Greatful Dead - Casey Jones Johnny Cash - Orange Blossom Special Rolling Stones - All down the Line Elton John - This Train don't stop there anymore Glenn Miller - Pennsylvania 6-5000 Simon & Garfunkle - Homeward Bound
Train Kept a Rollin' - I like the Aerosmith version, but my favorite is the version done by The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page. First heard it when I was a kid watching the movie "Blowup" from 1968. Think it was also known as "Stroll On".
"Will There Be Any Freight Trains in Heaven?" (Hobo's Meditation) by Merle Haggard. Actually that is from "Same Train, A different Time" album and is a Jimmy Rodgers song. I found the chorus: Will there be any freight trains in heaven Any boxcars in which we might hide Will there be any tough cops and brakemen Will they tell us we cannot ride Will the hobo chum with the rich man Will we always have money to spare Will they have respect for a hobo In the land that lies hidden up there
WOW, there is a lot of good ones here. Haven't seen these mentioned: Southbound (Doc and Merle Watson) Wreck of the 1262 ( Doc Watson) Texas, 1947 (Guy Clark) Pan American Boogie (Kate Mackenzie) Tuxedo Junction (Glenn Miller)
Rod McKuen's version of: "Doesn't Anybody Know My Name" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfKJOesKuiw Synopsis: Vet returns from war ... This has also been done by Waylen Jennings, Hank Williams Jr. and Johny Cash, (I'm sure there are others). Rod McKuen was the first person I ever saw in concert. I ended up with the album. Hank Williams Jr version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-52Rvidcps0&feature=related Waylen's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEFTD6Jpf44&feature=related Look around on youtube for more.
I have several favorites: Ozzy's "Crazy Train" Steve Earle, "Texas Eagle" Scott Miller and the Commonwealth, "Amtrak Crescent" Robert Earl Keen, "Train Trek" Merle Haggard, "No More Trains to Ride" and "Freedom Train" And of course, anytime KHYI-FM in Plano, Texas plays a Mandatory Train Tune when a KCS freight rolls by their studios, and I catch it on their Internet stream.
The Gerry Mulligan tune is from an album called Age Of Steam which features a picture of Gerry in front of the Locomotive.
Here's 2 more I like: The Log Train by Hank Williams Sr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7P6i3Ma9E The L&W by John Mole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw2dQniPJ-o
I just found this digging around Youtube. This song is pretty darn good and the train blowing for the crossing in the background was good timing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKrwPaP7Bvs **Warning for language in the beginning**
My first thought was Gordon Lightfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy. Of course an odd addition to the list would have to be: Berlin - The Metro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNVLRPSEVaE&feature=player_detailpage