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Train and Railroad Songs.
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For those that model the 30's and older are they those old ballads like, "Wreck of old 97" or "Engine 143"? or "Wabash Cannonball?
For the 40's it's gotta be "Chattanooga Choo Choo" or "She Took The Katy"
How about in the 60's and 70's with "City of New Orleans"(My favorite and I am itching for those IC cars!)
For those crazy merger 70's how about "Crazy Train"
Lets hear about your favorites!
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You asked for train songs, and i'm a fan of these as well as the train movies.
Johnny Cash...... Probibly the all time greatest train song singer. He didn'y write most of these, but he sure loved them..
Wrech of the Old 97
The L&N Don't Run Here Anymore
Orange Blossom Special
Hey Porter
Down There by the Train
Folsom Prison Blues
The Beatles:
One after 909
Molly Hatchet:
Train Train
Grateful Dead: Jerry and the boys liked trains as well....
Casey Jones
Beat it on Down the Line (this ones a personal favorite)
I Know You Rider
Terapin Station
Ziggy Marley:
People Get Ready (there's a train a comin')
Journy:
Strangers
Gladis Night:
Midnight Train to Georga
For our Jazz fans.... Duke Elington:
The "A" Train
I'll post more when i think of them, but that lit should get this thread going...
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May be the New Christy Minstrals- 2-10, 6-18, 10-44
I'd really have to dust off the cobwebs.
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I'm into classical music and opera in a big way,
Even then you could sample Micheal Nyman "MGV". There is something else, I have written it down, I'll add it this evening.
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Great ones! Johny Cash did love trains and from what I understand was also a model railroader
Hey Kelly,
Johnny was a huge railroad fan, but I'm not sure about being a model railroader. I've read both his biography, and his auto-biography, and in neither book does he or his biographer mention him ever collecting model trains. As a young boy in Dias, Arkansaw, he grew up very poor, and didn't have many toys to play with. I do know that as an adult, both he and his neighbor (Hank Williams Jr) at Hickory Lake collected civil war era guns, knives and canons. Hank Jr. owned a fully working 20 pounder, and Johnny had a working Napolian. The two enjoyed pissing off their nieghbors around the lake with cannon serinades...LOL
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Crazy train ; Ozzie
515 ;Who
Train Train; Blackfoot
Mystery Train; UFO
Train kept a rollin':Aerosmith
MIdnight Special: CCR
Night Train; Guns and Roses
As you can see, I'm a headbanger.
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Slow train coming / Bob Dylan
Love in Vain / Rolling Stones
Hear my train a comin' / Jimi Hendrix
And many more I don't recall at once....
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