Train Traveling Music

Some Popular Train Songs
(and a little more travelin' music)

Cash-Casey Jones-Orange Blossom Special

Quite awhile back we asked for some feedback from our newsletter readers asking them to send us the name of their favorite train songs. We've included their favorites and a whole lot more in the following list. A few songs are listed more than once with a separate listing for each performer. 

Each song title is linked to a YouTube or other similar site. Some of the clips have been viewed millions of times and some less than 1,000. If you'd like to see a link here that is not included please send us the link.

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Title Performed By
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A-B Back to Top
Always on My Mind Willy Nelson
Amarillo by Morning George Strait
Antwerp Central Station (Sound of Music) vtm production
Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe, On The Judy Garland
Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe, On The Johnny Mercer
Big Rock Candy Mountain, The Harry McClintock
Big Train From Memphis Cajun Cowboys
Blue Railroad Train Doc Watson
Blue Water Line Ken Graydon
Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train Mable Scott
Boxcar Blues Hank Spurling
Brakemen on the Memphis Train, The Long gone Smiles Band
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C Back to Top
Canadian Railroad Trilogy Gordon Lightfoot
Cannonball Rag Merle Travis
Casey Jones Johnny Cash
Casey Jones Grateful Dead
Casey Jones+Orange Blossom Special Johnny Cash
Casey's Last Ride Kris Kristofferson
Chattanooga Choo Choo Frances Langford
Chattanooga Choo Choo Glen Miller
Choo choo ch'boogie Sound Bazar
City of New Orleans The Highwaymen
City of New Orleans Arlo Guthrie
City of New Orleans (Animated) Arlo Guthrie
City of New Orleans Willie Nelson
Crossroad Robert Johnson
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D-E Back to Top
Daddy What's a Train? Utah Phillips
Danville Girl Woodie Guthrie
Down By The Station The Four Preps
Down There By The Train Tom Waits
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill lewdite
The Diplomat Johnny Cash
The Dying Hobo Arthur Fields 1923
Early Morning Rain Peter, Paul & Mary
Engine 143 Greg Reish
Engine, Engine Number Nine Roger Miller
Engineers Don't Wave From The Trains Anymore Tom T. Hall
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F Back to Top
500 Miles The Brothers Four
Fast Freight (*G Lightfoot and T Whelan) Two Tones*
Fireball Mail New Coon Creek Girls
Folsom Prison Blues - Live @ San Quentin Johnny Cash
Freight Train Chet Atkins
Freight Train (P, P and Mary Version) mumd2003
Freight Train Boogie (Animated) John Denver
From A Rolls To The Rails Boxcar Willie
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G Back to Top
Gospel Train (Harry Burleigh Juarês De Mira) HBJ De Mira
Great Freight Train The Conductors
Gambler,The Kenny Rogers
Great Locomotive Chase, The Robert W. Smith
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H-I Back to Top
Hank And The Hobo (train country song) Boxcar Willie
Here Comes the Sun Jimi Hendrix
Hey Porter Johnny Cash
Hit the Road Jack Ray Charles
Hobo's Lullaby Woodie Guthrie
Hobo's Lullaby Arlo Guthrie
Homeward Bound Simon and Garfunkel
Honky Tonk Train Blues Meade Lux Lewis
Honky Tonk Train Blues imbaAntares
I Got The Train Sittin' Waitin' Waylon Jennings
I Miss a Lot of Trains Tom T. Hall
I'm Movin' On Elvis Presley
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Terry Bradshaw
I've Been Everywhere Johnny Cash
I've Been Everywhere Hank Snow
I've been working on the railroad Tilt
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J-K-L Back to Top
John Henry Bruce Springsteen
King of the Road Roger Miller
Last Train Arlo Guthrie
Last Train/Boston Pops Arlo Guthrie
Life's Railway (With Willie Nelson) Patsy Cline
Lonesome Joe Roy Acuff
Long Black Train Josh Turner
Long Black Train Lonnie King
Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress The Hollies
Long Gone Lonesome Blues Hank Williams
Lost Train Blues (James Reams & the Barnstormers) JR and Barnstormers
Lovin' Locomotive Man Johnny Cash
Letter, The The Box Tops
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M Back to Top
M.T.A. Kingston Trio
Me And Jimmie Rodgers (1980) Tom T. Hall
Memphis Train 75 Rufus Thomas
Midnight Train To Georgia Gladys Knight
Morning Train (Sensational Nightingales*) SN*
MTA Matty O'Brian
My Baby Takes The Morning Train Sheena Easton
My Baby Thinks He's a Train Rosanne Cash
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N-O Back to Top
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Joan Baez
Night Train Earl Bostic
Night Train To Memphis Jesse McReynolds
Nine Pound Hammer Merle Travis
No Expectations Rolling Stones
Number 9 Train Fathead
On The Evening Train Johnny Cash
One Toke Over the Line Brewer and Shipley
Orange Blossom Special, + Casey Jones Johnny Cash
Orange Blossom Special Roy Clark
Orange Blossom Special (San Quentin) Johnny Cash
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P-Q Back to Top
Pan American Hank Williams
Papa Was a Rolling Stone (7 minute version) The Temptations
Peace Train (live) Cat Stevens
People Get Ready Curtis Mayfield
Promised Land Elvis Presley
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R Back to Top
Railroad Bill Lonnie Donegan
Railroad Bill (Etta Baker with Taj Mahal) Etta with Taj Mahal
Railroad Lady (Animated) Willie Nelson
Railroad Lady (Cover) Willie Nelson
Ramblin Man Waylon Jennings
Ride The Train Buck Norris
Ride This Train Johnny Cash
Rock Island Line, The Donegan
Roll in My Sweet Babies Arms Leon Russell
Runaway Train Rosanne Cash
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S Back to Top
Section Gang Blues - 1927 Scratchy Texas Alexander
Sentimental Journey Doris Day
Sentimental Journey Les Brown
Steel Rail Blues (Sam Roberts Cover) Gordon Lightfoot
Streamlined Cannonball Chet Atkins
Sweet Home Chicago Robert Johnson
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T Back to Top
13 Dixie Flyer (Jazz Open 06) Randy Newman
Take It Easy Eagles
Take The 'A' Train - 1966 Dave Brubeck
Take The 'A' Train Duke Ellington
Texas 1947 / Let him Roll (1975) Guy Clark
That Train Song (The Reverend Peyton's) Big Damn Band
This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers Augie March
Train 45 (From TV Show Extract) Todd Taylor
Train in the Distance - (Paul Simon cover) Paul Simon
Train Kept A Rollin' (With Train Photos) Aerosmith
Trains and Boats and Planes Dionne Warwick
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U-V-W Back to Top
Velvet Revolver Sucker Train Blues Guns N' Roses
Wabash Cannonball Doyle Dykes
Wabash Cannonball Boxcar Willie
Wreck of Old 97 Lester & Earl
Wreck of Old 97 Hank Snow
Wreck of Old 97 Boxcar Willie
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X-Y-Z Back to Top
Zion Train Bob Marley