Rock Songs about Trains - How many can you think of?

[Jerry Howlett]

Don't forget "Big Big Train" either

Wasn't that the Triang "0" Gauge Hymek ??   sorry 

Jerry

[Webbo]

"The City of New Orleans" was also sung by Arlo Guthrie as posted earlier in this thread. It is one of my favourite songs and not just favourite railroad songs.

Webbo

[Plainline.]

How about

"Frankfort Special" and "Mystery Train" by Elvis and "Last train to Expo 67" by Duke Reid.

[D1042 Western Princess]

From the film "The Sound of Music" came the song "Climb every mountain", which surely can only be a musical history of the BR "Peak" Classes 44/45/46. 


Or maybe not. 

[Steve Brassett]

Not rock, but...

Hobo Blues by John Lee Hooker

When I first thought to hobo'in, hobo'in,
I took a freight train to be my friend, oh Lord

[Chris Morris]

Its a long, long way from rock and roll but Trains by Reginald Gardiner . I can remember the noise in Snow Hill tunnel (just).

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[Plainline.]

Here's another

"Downbound Train" by Chuck Berry.

[maridunian]

U2 - Zoo Station   

Zoo Station (Berlin Zoologischer Garten) was the main railway station in the former West Berlin, and when the wall went up became the eastern terminus of the U-Bahn 2 (Untergrundbahn 2, ie "underground railway 2"), usually called "U2".

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(Ok, the song's really about childbirth, or even rebirth, but the metaphors are all trainy!)

Mike

[ODRAILS]

Showing my age a bit....

Orange Blossom Special - Johnny Cash, The Spotnicks etc.
Come On Train - Johnny & The Hurricanes
Let It Rock a.k.a Rocking On The  Railroad - Chuck Berry
Riding On The L&N - John Mayall, Dr Feelgood, 9 Below Zero etc.
Smokestack Lightning - Howling Wolf, Yardbirds etc.
All Aboard - Chuck Berry
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow - Johnny Cash
Big Train - Booker T & MGs

Cheers, Ian

[ijmsmith]

Not rock but almost rocksteady: Train to Skaville - Ethiopians

[Agrippa]

Also Don't sleep in the Subway by Petula Clark.

[joe cassidy]

How did I manage to forget "How long has this train been gone" by Billy Preston ?

Best regards,


Joe
P.S. I would also like to mention some of the lyrics of "Rainy Night in Georgia by Brook Benton :

"I find me a place in a boxcar
and take my guitar
to pass some time.
the distant moaning of a train
seems to play a sad refrain,
to the night"

That's what I call poetry !

[Gary Burcombe]

How about four train songs from one band?   

    Velvet Train, Gravy train, Slow Train and Railroad.

All from none other than Status Quo!

[Cooper]

Found this in a junk shop this week....

[guest311]

anyone else remember
"the 6.5 Special"
seem to remember it as a theme tune, but I think it was also a single