2010 Travel Section

Something about trains has inspired some great music. Here’s a list of some of our favorite train tunes you’ll want to find and load onto your iPod as a soundtrack for your great railroad travel adventures, your next trip down the highway in your car, or your quiet evenings relaxing out back as the lonesome, distant freight train whistles blow.

Link up to YouTube videos of these great songs. Feel free to copy the "Rhythms of the Rail" album art above to your computer to use on your iPod. Click here to open a higher-resolution jpeg. The photo is part of a magnificent mural on a building in Orland, Ind.

 

01 • Canadian Railroad Trilogy • Gordon Lightfoot
      (Canada's Got Talent tribute performance)
02 • City of New Orleans • Arlo Guthrie
03 • Wabash Cannonball • Roy Acuff
04 • Chattanooga Choo Choo • Glenn Miller Orchestra
05 • Freight Train Blues • Bob Dylan
06 • Locomotive Breath • Jethro Tull
07 • Wreck of the Old 97 • Johnny Cash
08 • Engine 143 • Joan Baez
09 • I’m a Little Red Caboose • Rose Maddox
10 • Little Red Caboose • The Children's Music Workshop
11 • I've Been Working on the Railroad • Johnny Cash
12 • It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry • Bob Dylan
13 • Downbound Train • Chuck Berry
14 • Mystery Train • Paul Butterfield and The Band
15 • One after 909 • The Beatles
16 • Last Train to Clarksville • The Monkees
17 • Midnight Train to Georgia • Gladys Knight and the Pips
18 • Homeward Bound • Simon & Garfunkel
19 • Can’t You See • Marshall Tucker Band
20 • Steel Rail Blues • Gordon Lightfoot
21 • Last Train • Arlo Guthrie
22 • The Watchman’s Gone • Gordon Lightfoot
23 • Tonight, I’ll Be Staying Here with You • Bob Dylan
24 • Nobody Cares about the Railroads Anymore • Harry Nilsson
25 • I Got a Thing about Trains • Johnny Cash
26 • Ride This Train(medley of train songs) • Johnny Cash
27 • Orange Blossom Special • Charlie Daniels Band

Send us an e-mail, and we’ll add your favorite train songs to create a “train” of train songs. We've already started adding some.

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