There are hundreds if not thousands of bluegrass songs about trains. Here are just a few of them:
- Day in the Life of a Railroad Spike
- Balsam Range “Papertown” (Mountain Home)
- I Hear a Choo-Choo Comin’
- The Stanley Brothers “Early Starday-King Days 1958-61, Volume 2” (Starday)
- Julie’s Train
- Balsam Range “Last Train to Kitty Hawk” (Mountain Home)
- Last Train to Kitty Hawk
- Balsam Range “Last Train to Kitty Hawk” (Mountain Home)
- Pan American
- Larry Sparks “Travelin” (Rebel)
- Steam Engine
- Gold Heart “Places I’ve Been” (Mountain Fever)
- The Engineers Don’t Wave From the Trains Anymore
- The Lynn Morris Band (Rounder)
- The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore
- The New Coon Creek Girls “The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore” (Pinecastle)
- The Streamlined Cannonball
- Balsam Range “Papertown” (Mountain Home)
- The Train’s Ready
- Balsam Range “Marching Home” (Mountain Home)
- Through the Window of a Train
- Blue Highway “Through the Window of a Train” (Rounder)
- Train 45
- J.D. Crowe “Bluegrass Holiday” (Rebel)
- Raymond Fairchild and Jimmy Cox “Twin Banjo Jubilee” (no label)
- Train Songs
- Ralph Stanley II “The One is Two” (Lonesome Day)
- Trains I Missed
- Balsam Range “Trains I Missed” (Mountain Home)