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Train Underwater - Bright Eyes New Virginia Creeper - Old Crow Medicine Show Let the Train Blow the Whistle - Johnny Cash

Am undiagnosed but definitely autistic. My opinion on trains is they used to scare the shit out of me when I was a child. Coal trains are all over the place where I live, and I was right up next to them while they were making terrifying loud noises. I think that ruined any interest I might have had from a distance. Now as an adult, I am very interested in the engineering and workings of trains, but not much more than the engineering and workings of all other complex engineered systems. But I'm more interested in buildings and architecture than mechanical engineering.

Peace Train by Cat Stevens

Love Train O‘Jays

Last Train to London by ELO

Chattanooga Choo Choo Glen Miller/ Andrews Sisters

Take The A Train Duke Ellington

Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys and Pips

Runaway Train

Flanders & Swann - The Slow Train https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU&list=RDU6OHD2uCpfU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUOdGhlIHNsb3cgdHJhaW6gBwE%3D&ra=m

Toto Cutugno - Il treno va

List of train songs - Wikipedia

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Freight train rolling on by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, and a bunch of other blues songs are related to trains, built around sounds and rhythms the trains make, or around journeying on trains.

One of my favorite artists, Tim Barry, does (or maybe did) some train hopping so some of his songs are about his experience riding in boxcars and that's reflected in his album art. A few of his that come to mind are: Driver Pull Chirch of Level Track Steel Road

But for an actual song about a train, I didn't see "Wabash Cannonball" yet. You can make a playlist from different Artists renditions of this song. Roy Acuff's take on it is the one that I associate with the song but the Limeliters is probably my favorite.

Just a small town girl, living in a loooonely world, She took the midnight train, going an-yyyy-where

This album is about actual train wrecks, I believe.

The Ghost of Hope by The Residents

Train in the Distance by Paul Simon

Lots of these songs involve trains. This one is about trains: I Often Dream of Trains - Robin Hitchcock

I have one German A Cappella song and one German Volkslied from the 1800s.

Wise Guys - Deutsche Bahn

Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne (Volkslied)

The most famouse song about DB by wise guys

Doesn't Kenny Rogers' The Gambler take place on a train? not about a train per say but the story is set on a train, right?

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

• Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (live from San Quentin version!)
• Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
• Half Man Half Biscuit - Time Flies By When You're The Driver Of A Train

The train song - nick cave

Quad City DJs - C’mon N’ Ride It

No Use for a Name - Don’t Miss the Train

Tom Waits (original), Rod Stewart/Patty Smyth/Bob Seger - Downtown Train

Journey - Don’t Stop Belivin’

John Fogerty - Train of Fools

Guns ‘N Roses “Night Train” (though technically not about a locomotive but getting blitzed on rotgut)

I’d never contemplated how many songs reference trains.

Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees

How's this one been missed?

I LIKE TRAINS - asdfmovie

Electric Callboy - teckno train

Kronos Quartet and Pat Metheny - Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint - An instrumental record of train sounds. Pretty phenomenal record IMO. Though it's not one you listen to over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNY7JhPbYug

I learnt about The Okaihau Express from Jetlag: The Game

The train and the gate (instrumental) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu4dp97e0k

Freight Train by Alan Jackson (different to the other songs titled Freight Train that I've seen linked so far)

Orient Express

Edit seems to only instrumental.

I only know the Finnish version originally

Pikajuna Meksikon

Edit 2 here are the translated lyrics (i didn't bother checking so it's ai translate)

Verse 1]

The express train is speeding through Mexico, it's already night The spotlights sweep the shiny track The barking of a coyote is heard, fading into the noise of the locomotive

Behind the Sierra Madre, the moon is bulging like cheese

The atmosphere in the first-class carriage is sleepy. Passengers, men, women, everyone is dozing. Then the pace slows down and almost stops. What could be the reason for the stop?

Verse 2]

The brakes squeal on the wheels, the carriage door opens. Two men rush in, talking dirty. Little Pete, Big Pat, both gangsters. Both of them are brandishing large crowbars.

"Hands up, gentlemen!" shouts a sharp command

Big Pat and shoots at the ceiling a couple of times:

"It would be wise for everyone to open their wallets now

"Listen to the one who is wearing shoes"

[Verse 3]

No one can resist, Little Pete guards Big Pat while he evacuates with his fingers the most accustomed Rings and purses, medallions, wallets

The robber also searches the suitcases alone. Nothing is left for the victims, the prey exceeds their hopes. Little Pete hisses at the top of his lungs: "Men are beaten to a pulp, but women are taken away."

"I can't be without my beloved now."

[Verse 4]

A rumbling laugh rings out, Big Pat now echoes his Partner's words and soon grunts: "Okay, that's what we'll do, we'll have a decent harem."

"Let's take the dirt to a hidden cave behind the Sierra Madre"

Then from the trap of the carriage, from among the gentlemen

Hidalgo now steps forward, says: "Señores, do whatever you want to us, but spare the women, otherwise you will have a bad memory."

[Verse 5]

A moment of silence follows, the suggestion is strange, new

Ha, now there's a commotion in the women's group too. An old maid, now, fifty years old, demands the floor and immediately gets it. Her eyes blazing with anger, she jumps on her feet and begins to vent her anger at Hidalgo:

"What is the gentleman talking about and fussing about? Let's do as the bandits order."

Huh-hah-heija, we'll do as the bandits order

Edit 3 i feel like there were more of those in the song than in tje lyrics page I looked at

Scatman John - Night Train

Do the band Train and any songs about trains? Let’s not find out, they’re shit.

I haven't seen mention of Ozzy's maybe biggest hit, Crazy Train

Blue Archive (mobile gacha game) has an…event? Characters? Plus a boss fight against some schoolgirls themed around trains.

Ok, poor explanation but their theme song is pretty banger. https://youtu.be/eWmQLvW9bjk https://youtu.be/6ITgnMiM2DU

The newer band 19 Miles Per Hour does parody concert samples on their socials. It's often pirate puns, but there's an Alice in Trains set, so to speak. Here comes the Choo Choo. Rail me. I forget what else

Night train to Mundo Fine
Night train to the end
Running hard and running fast
To meet my future and away from my past
Taking that gamble that cannot last
Night train to the eeeeeend!

Hell’s ride to Mundo Fine
Hell’s ride to the end
Sold my soul to the devil’s men
He draws me hard with a merciless hand
And all I bought is a handful of sand
Night train to the eeeeeeend!

I’m on this ride ’cause I have no pride
In myself, or in men, or in God!
Now if you want to share in the price of my fare
Then fill your mind with greed that is blind
And wander in its evil fog

Night train to Mundo Fine
Night train to the end
Running hard and running fast
To meet my future and away from my past
Taking the gamble that cannot last
Night train to the eeeeeend!

Not sure it’s it’s been mentioned, but the corny and old school answer is Chattanooga Choo Choo

Til it was also the first gold selling record (1 million+)

Hank Snow recorded a few

Train, Train by Blackfoot is kinda awesome.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PGjJjrjTlNY

Train by Avatar 🚂

Lá vem o Trem - Agepê (1975)

Holly Johnson - Love Train

Hes even riding the train !

Stoke it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GgsL6ZIw8s

Trem das onze, from Adoniran Barbosa

So many Johnny Cash songs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/12321351-Johnny-Cash-And-The-Tennessee-Two-Get-Rhythm-Story-Songs-Of-The-Trains-And-Rivers

Special Streamline by Bukka White.

Blue Railroad Train by Doc Watson

Choo Choo Train by the Box Tops

Downbound Train by Chuck Berry

Take the A Train by Esquivel

There are SO many songs about trains.

L & N Special by Christine Kittrell