Ask Lemmy

Kari Tapio - Juna Kulkee (train travels)

Little Red Caboose (preferably the one performed by The Laurie Berkner Band): https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUtoCv_ot8

"My Trains" by Lemon Demon

How did nobody recommend I'm a Train by Albert Hammond??

Also: A Passage to Bankok by Rush

The Northern Boys - Sexy Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXKhJfRQ7k

Zdob și Zdub & Advahov Brothers - Trenulețul (The Train) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGNT5Uh-WKw

The Longest Johns - On the Railroad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5PvH8D4wQ&t=8

Electric Callboy - TEKKNO TRAIN https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFlhlZbeKgE

Play a Train Song - Todd Snider

Lonnie Donegan - Rock Island Line

• Midnight Special - Trad.
• In the Pines / Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Trad.
• The Beeching Report - I Like Trains
• Night Mail - Public Service Broadcasting
• Oh! Mr Porter - George & Thomas Le Brunn

Autistic.

I don't have a special interest in trains. I do enjoy the movement of them and other transport though. The movement is calming to me.

I do collect playlists on my special interests. My biggest special interest at the moment is Ireland 🇮🇪 🍀🥰

Two of my favorites:

Mispo - Train down the line

Blasting Company - Old black Train, this is from the "Over the Garden Wall" soundtrack. Both the soundtrack and show are great. If you like it then also give "Send me a peach" is also a great song.

Ghosttrain - Gorillaz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdF9_gGv_vc

Porcupine Tree - Trains

I know a band called Train but I don't think any of their songs even mention trains. 🤔

There is Casey Jones by Grateful Dead that is train adjacent. 🤷‍♂️

Does Midnight Train to Georgia count?

Judging my number of neurospicy friends, I might be somewhere on a spiciness spectrum -- but I don't know anyone who doesn't think trains are awesome!

I was surprised not to see this one, but it's about laying train tracks, so maybe it doesn't qualify: Driving the Last Spike by Genesis

Kasey Chambers does a cover of a Fred Eaglesmith song "Freight Train" I love it

Do you like movies about gladiators?

I didn't see anyone suggest:

Electric Six - Riding on a white train

ELO - Last train to London

FSK “Hobo Zwiefacher” from their album “The Sound of Music”

Song is in German. On the CD (unfortunately missing on YouTube) there’s a little intro in English describing that a Zwiefacher is a Bavarian song style featuring two different topics mixed together, then says, “This is our Zwiefacher, about incest and trains.”

Edit: also the opening scene from The Music Man is about trains in a very unusual way

9 to 5 (morning train) - Sheena Easton

This train is bound for glory

Long black train - Josh Turner

Down by the station

Baby likes to rock it (like a Boogie woogie choo choo train) - The Tractors

I tried to avoid repeats, but I have to say this one again: 500 miles - Peter, Paul, and Mary

Not strictly about trains, but it's prominent in the lyrics of "Casey Jones" by The Greatful Dead.

The Monkees - Last Train to Clarkesville

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train to Georgia

Edit: also https://hellomusictheory.com/learn/songs-about-trains/

I apologize in advance, just cannot help myself.

https://youtu.be/WUNL7PjBr8U

She caught the Katy - Blues Brothers or Taj Mahal*

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

Midnight Special - Creedence Clearwater Revival or Leadbelly*

Love in Vain - Robert Johnson*

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

Barricades and Brickwalls - Kacey Chambers

Train to Nowhere - Savoy Brown

Hear My Train A Comin - Jimi Hendrix*

*There have been loads of songs about trains or that mention trains in American blues history.. I'm barely scratching the surface, here. In the early days of the 20th century the blues artists used to travel around by hopping on freight trains to get from town to town, so they featured in many, many songs. There would have been even more songs written to the rhythm of a rolling carriage, too, that don't even mention trains at all.

b52s cosmic thing has the word train in it but is not about trains as well.

Thomas the Tank Engine theme song

The Gambler by Kenny Rogers takes place on a train... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo&t=15

Train Train by the Blue Hearts, if no one already mentioned it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkLe-EOq5U&t=8

Dethklok - Murder train a comin

Not autistic, probably, but trains are pretty cool. I've hopped trains before and that was fun, but I also don't recommend it.

Edit: just remembered, Townes Van Zandt - Desperados waiting for a train

UB40 - She Caught The Train

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgKSpAEewGw

I know one only it's called Runaway Train from Soul Asylum.

But it's kind of depressing, I like depressing songs.

Idk if it has something to do, but it mentions train.

Glendale Train by Ner Riders of the Purple Sage

Technically about a train robbery.

The Locomotion - any version you can find, they all rule M.T.A. - Kingston Trio Last Train to London - ELO Moonlight Express (album) - The Ivory Heart Love Train - The O'Jays

stretches: Takin' Care of Business - BTO ("if your train's on time...) Rydeen - Yellow Magic Orchestra (licensed for the arcade game Super Locomotive. for a rerelease without the license, they wrote a pastiche called "Ryzeen") Detroit Medley - Bruce Springstein (has a part about a train a-comin' that IIRC has never been done on it's own)

Wreck of the old 97 Bringing in the Georgia mail Orange Blossom Special

The first is no long considered appropriate.

More like light rail, but

Berlin - Metro

The opening line is her waiting at a train station:

Juice Newton - Queen Of Hearts

The folk standard John Henry

Here by Tennessee Ford

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Here by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge

The O'Jays - Love Train, aka the Soul Train intro song

The Gap Band - Party Train

About a proverbial train

Georgio Moroder - Chase, aka the theme from Midnight Express

Driver 8 by R.E.M. is a great one. Will try to think of more 👍

EDIT:

• Solomon Burke's version of Fast Train
• Last Train to Trancentral - The KLF
• Blue Train - John Coltrane
• More of a tram than a train, but still in the same spirit I think - The Trolly Song - Judy Garland
• Actually the theme song to a Saturday-morning kids' TV show in the UK, The 8:15 from Manchester by Inspiral Carpets is a cracker. It might be about a bus though, I'm not sure.

Tom Waits - Train Song

Tom Waits - Downtown Train

Bob Dylan, "Slow Train Coming" Also, "It Takes a lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" He's got to have other train songs, too, none others occur to me at the moment.

"Chattanooga Choo-choo" was really big something like 100 years ago.

My son is super into trains (not diagnosed yet, but we expect he gots the tism), we also have a playlist. A few I haven't seen mentioned:

Blackfoot - Train, Train

Peter Paul and Mary - Freight Train

Cat Stevens - Peace Train

Edit: forgot about this masterpiece (NSFW unless headphones)

Morningtown Ride

City of New Orleans - written by Steve Goodman, cover by The Highwaymen - the City of New Orleans is a passenger line still operated by Amtrak between Chicago and New Orleans

The Gallopin' Goose - C. W. McCall - not exactly a train but certainly a part of railroad history, the "Galloping Geese" were a product of the declining demand for passenger rail service:

Originally running steam locomotives on narrow gauge railways, the perpetually struggling RGS developed the first of the "geese" as a way to keep its contract to run mail into towns in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. There was not enough passenger or cargo income to justify continuing the expensive steam train service at then-current levels, but it was believed that a downsized railway would return to profitability.
[...]
Motors were not only less expensive to operate, but were also significantly lighter, thus reducing impact on the rails and roadbeds.
[...]
The first was built in 1931 from the body of a Buick "Master Six" four-door sedan.

The Legend of John Henry's Hammer - Johnny Cash (the Folsom Prison recording) - also not about a train specifically, but about the legendary railroad steel driver John Henry, I think it fits

Orange Blossom Special - written by Ervin T. Rose, cover by Johnny Cash - the Orange Blossom Special was a passenger train running between New York and Miami

*Bonus:

Dumb Ways to Die - produced by Metro Trains Melbourne as part of a public awareness campaign for railway safety in 2012

B.T Express - Ride On BT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMtbbpM4XM

It's got a real funky flute on the track