Train Songs

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)