Train and Railroad Songs.

Ok we did the movies now the music. Whats your favorite RR song or music? Do you play them when you are working on your trains or when you run them? Even if its a non train related song, is there any music that you use as a background to set the mood?
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!

I'm into classical music and opera in a big way, to the exclusion of everything else but jazz, so that's what I play. No particular favourites, although Bach goes well.

I liked the music of the PEACE TRAIN.
Fred

Okay Kelly, here it goes

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...

Tony B..
Wasatch Z Club

Great ones! Johny Cash did love trains and from what I understand was also a model railroader

I think it was Suzy Boggis- Steel Rails
May be the New Christy Minstrals- 2-10, 6-18, 10-44
I'd really have to dust off the cobwebs.
Fred

One old for you

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.

Kelley wrote:

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

Tony B...
Wasatch Z Club

Thanks.I read it somewhere that he had a train, I could have been mistaken. Of course not when he was a kid as he was poor as dirt. Didn't he do an ad for Lionel though? If I was him and got offered to do an add back then, I'd say hang the money, give me a trainset.

As you don't seem to be able to edit posts I'll put it here. For those that like classical music and trains: www.juerghanselmann.li/willkomm/cdfach/jh_bahn.shtml

Wow this is nice! My wife and her father are into music. He also has one heck of a train collection. They are German too so this is real cool.

Some of the Rock N' Roll train songs I like are:
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.

I ALSO NJOYED THE TUNE OF PEAECE TRAIN AND OTHERS TOOBUT MY FAVORITE IS THE ORIGINAL'CITY OF NEW ORLEANS' I RODE ON THAT RUN-CHICAGO AND DOWN TO THE SEA AND BACK, MANY MANY TIMES BUT MISSED IT'S LAST RUN. STOJINY

Locomotive Breathe / Jethro Tull
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....

Dom