Boxcars, by Butch Hancock

What will  music be like when there are no more songs about trains or cars? For now, we still have a few and I’m right there clinging to them. Here’s Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band from their fantastic album The Mountain.

A post full of train songs wouldn’t be a post full of train songs without the late Utah Phillips singing Daddy What’s a Train. This video has some excellent footage too!

And now, a lovely (if short) version of Elizabeth Cotton’s Freight Train played by John Fahey and Peter Lang.

Of course there’s Algoma Central 69 by Stompin Tom Connors

There are so many fantastic train songs, this post could go on and on. Instead, maybe I’ll make it a series of train song posts. Let’s go out with some  boogie woogie. Here’s Mabel Scott performing Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train.
Maybe this one isn’t really about trains, huh?

What are your favourite train songs?