Grateful Dead - Casey Jones.
Doug MacLeod - New Panama Limited.

Thanks all, and keep ‘em coming! How about some early 1900’s selections? Depression era?

Here's a good one from that era. "Reuben's Train". There are many versions on both guitar and banjo. Here's Billy Strings doing a live version.

How's about some hobo songs, after all, hobos & trains go together:

Hobo's Lullaby by Goebel Reeves, which I heard on an Arlo Guthrie album

Hobo's Meditation which I think is by Jimmie Rodgers, but I became familiar with it when it was on Trio.

Did somebody say play a train song??

Steve Goodman of course with his song "City of New Orleans":


Another youtube of it with chords shown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzbPumS2WYI

Long Black Train, by Josh Turner, is a current favorite of mine.

Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry".


"Don't the brakeman look good, Mama, flagging down the Double E?" :)




Turtle

Here's a few I pull out whenever someone requests a "train song":




- and yeah, CRT can be done solo with just a 12-string if you're a good crosspicker...

I used to perform this one at Bluegrass Jamborees near me....

And who could forget this one::)

Would an old religious train tune work for you ?

You may also want to check out Hank Snow,
he sang quite a few train songs.

yea that's a good one!

Johns one of my heroes,,

BUT I have to say... you forgot "Mercy of the Wheels"

Mississippi John Hurt's version of Casey Jones.

The Train Carrying Jimmy Rogers Home by Greg Brown

The king of train songs IMHO: Smokestack Lightning by Howlin' Wolf -- and you can do a lot with that riff, like my version where I mix in Walt Whitman:

Locomotive in Winter

Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull

I Wish I was a Train by Fred Eaglesmith

The Train That Carried Jimmie Rogers Home by Greg Brown

Freight Train Boogie by Marie Travis

The Rocket by Fred Eaglesmith