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A train song is a song referencing

• "2:10 Train" (Tom Campbell/Linda Albertano) by
  Steve Gillette, Carolyn Hester, Taj Mahal, Rising Sons, Linda Ronstadt and Stone Poneys^[4]
• "2:15" (John Philip Sousa), copyright 1889^[5]
• "2:19" (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) by Jerry Douglas,^[6] Tom Waits^[7]
• "2:19 Blues (Mamie's Blues)" (Mamie Desdunes) by
  Papa Bue Jensen, Bunk Johnson, Jo Ann Kelly, Cy Laurie, George Lewis, Paul Lingle, Jelly Roll Morton, Leon Redbone, Dave Van Ronk, Eric Von Schmidt and Rolf Cahn^[8][9]
• "219 Train" (Harvey Fuqua) by the Moonglows^[10]
• "The 3:10 to Yuma" (George Dunning, Ned Washington) by Sandy Denny,^[11] Frankie Laine
• "30 Miles of Railroad Track" (Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard) by Hammond Brothers^[12]
• "5:15 (The Angels Have Gone)" (Pete Townshend) by David Bowie, the Who (from Quadrophenia, 1973)^[13][14][15]
• "5:15" (Chris Isaak) by Chris Isaak^[16]
• "
  Joe Simon, Sonny & Cher, Billy Strange, the Tokens, Mary Travers, McCoy Tyner and Marc Ribot, Unit 4 + 2, Johnny Ventura, Gene Vincent, Jimmy Vivino, Hedy West, Roger Whittaker, Mike Wilhelm, Foy Willing and Riders of the Purple Sage, Peter Yarrow^[19][20][21]
• "8:05" (Don Stevenson, Jerry Miller) by Moby Grape^[22]
• "9 to 5 (Morning Train)" by Sheena Easton
• "900 Miles" (Traditional)
  Town Criers, the Weavers, Wally Whyton, Glenn Yarbrough^[24][25]

• "Across the Track Blues" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington^[26]
• "Ain't No Brakeman" (Fontaine Brown) by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers,^[27] Coco Montoya^[28]
• "Alabamy Bound", see "I'm Alabama Bound"
• "All Aboard" (Muddy Waters) by
  Sly & Robbie (Warrick Lyn)^[39]
• "All Aboard for Dreamland" (
  Gussie L. Davis), sheet music published 1904^[40]
• "All Down the Line" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) by the Rolling Stones^[41][15]
• "All Night Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: The Allman Brothers Band (Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes, Chuck Leavell),^[42][15] New Grass Revival (Steven Briner, Sam Bush),^[43] Percy Sledge (unlisted)^[44]
• "
  Angels Met Him at the Gate" (A. W. French, C. M. Currier), commemorates death of gospel singer and hymn-writer Philip Bliss in 1876 train wreck in Ohio^[45]
• "Anniversary Blue Yodel" see "Blue Yodel No. 7"
• "Another Journey by Train" (Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst) by the Cure^[46]
• "Another Town, Another Train" (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus) by ABBA^[47]
• "Another Train" (Pete Morton) by Artisan, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, the Poozies. Other songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Mary Gauthier^[48] Will Kimbrough (Gwil Owen, Will Kimbrough); Ian McCulloch (Ian McCulloch)^[49]
• "Another Train Coming" (
  William "Mickey" Stevenson) by Kim Weston^[50]
• "
  Sean Ryan^[52]
• "
  Are You Lonely for Me" (Bert Berns) by Hank Ballard,^[53] the Commitments,^[54] Grateful Dead,^[55] Al Green,^[56] Chuck Jackson,^[57] Steve Marriott,^[58] Otis Redding and Carla Thomas,^[59] Freddie Scott^[60]
• "Asleep at the Switch" (Charles Shackford), published 1897,[61] by Ernest Stoneman (1926)^[62][63]
• "At the Sound of the Signal Bell" (Will A. Heelan, Max Dreyfus), sheet music published 1898^[64]
• "At the Station" (Joe Vitale, Joe Walsh) by Joe Walsh^[65][15]
• "Atlanta Special, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[66]
• "Atlantic Coastal Line, The" (Fred Burch, Mel Tillis) by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs,^[67] Burl Ives,^[68] Charley Pride,^[69] Hank Snow^[70]
• "Auctioneer (Another Engine)" (Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe) by R.E.M.^[71][15]
• "Autorail" (Medoune Diallo) by Orchestra Baobab^[72]

B

• "B & O Blues", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton),^[73] Big Joe Turner (Big Joe Turner)^[74][31]
• "B & O Blues, No. 2" (Gary Atkinson, Blind Willie McTell) by Blind Willie McTell^[75][76]
• "Back Back Train" (Fred McDowell) by Mississippi Fred McDowell, Aerosmith^[16]
• "Back on the Train" (Tom Marshall) by Phish,^[77] Toots and the Maytals^[78]
• "Back Up Train" (Palmer James, Curtis Rodgers) by Al Green^[79]
• "Bad Luck Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[80]
• "'Battle Fought on the Shields Railway, The'" Broadside published by W. & T. Fordyce, Newcastle, England, 1839^[81]
• "Beat It on Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) by
  Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions^[82]
• "Because He Was Only a Tramp" (Traditional), related to "The Tramp", published c. 1875–1880,[83] by Wyzee Hamilton^[84]
• "Ben Dewberry's Final Run" (
  Jimmie Rodgers,^[86] Hank Snow^[87]
• "Between Trains", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Auburn Lull (Auburn Lull),^[88] Robbie Robertson (Robbie Robertson)^[89]
• "Big Bear Train" (Jimmy Yancey) by Jimmy Yancey^[90][91]
• "Big Black Train" (George Sherry) by
  Flatt & Scruggs^[93]
• "Big Iron Horses" (John Dittrich/Dave Innis/Vince Melamed) performed by Restless Heart, 1992. The co-writer, John Dittrich, who also sang lead on the RCA recording, recalled his childhood in New York State, Avon area, at the Five Arch Bridge, watching steam trains with his grandfather. He was observing the steam trains in the early and mid-1950s, towards the end of the steam era.^[94][95]
• "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) by Cannon's Jug Stompers (1928),^[96][97] Grateful Dead
• "Big Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Joey Hunting, Terry Kilgore, David Lee Roth, Preston Sturges)^[105]
• "Big Train (from Memphis)" (John Fogerty) by John Fogerty^[106][15]
• "Big Wheels" (Clovis Yarnall) by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Bill Groggin's Goat" (
  Traditional) by Sara Hickman^[107]
• "Bill Mason" (Copyrighted by Roy Harvey, from poem by Bret Harte) by Roy Harvey and the North Carolina Ramblers (1927), Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers (1929)^[108]
• "Billy Richardson's Last Ride" (Carson Robison, Cleburne C. Meeks) by Vernon Dalhart (1926)^[109][110]
• "Black Girl" (variation of "The Longest Train"/"In the Pines")^[111] by Long John Baldry,^[112] Lonnie Donegan,^[113] Marianne Faithfull,^[114] Clifford Jordan,^[115] Journeymen,^[116] Lead Belly,^[111] Nirvana ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"),^[117] Pete Seeger,^[118] Josh White^[119]
• "Black Train" (Phil Collen) by Def Leppard^[8]
• "Black Train Blues, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[120]
• "Black Train Song" (The Doors, Junior Parker, Sam Phillips) by the Doors^[121]
• "Blow That Lonesome Whistle, Casey" (Al Dexter) by Al Dexter^[122]
• "Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train" (Alton and Rabon Delmore)^[123] by the Delmore Brothers,^[124] Happy and Artie Traum^[125]
• "Blue Railroad Train" (
  Alton Delmore) by the Delmore Brothers, Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, Geoff and Maria Muldaur, the Tony Rice Unit, Marty Stuart, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Doc and Merle Watson^[126] Additional song with this title written and recorded by Danny Schmidt.^[127]
• "Blue Smoke" (Dolly Parton) by Dolly Parton^[128] 2014
• "
  the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Marty Stuart (Billy Smith);^[129]
• "Blue Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Grant Green, GRP All-Star Big Band, Dave Grusin, Conrad Herwig, J. J. Johnson, Byard Lancaster, Archie Shepp Quartet, Kenny Werner, Joe Lee Wilson (John Coltrane); Tripping Daisy (Tim DeLaughter and Tripping Daisy); Kenny Rogers (Pat Donohue); Billy Hancock (Billy Hancock); Antônio Carlos Jobim (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Lô Borges and Ronaldo Bastos); Kevin Johnson (Kevin Johnson); Cibo Matto (Cibo Matto); Jimmy Page and Robert Plant (Charlie Jones, Jimmy Page, Michael K. Lee and Robert Plant);^[130] Maura O'Connell, Linda Ronstadt-Emmylou Harris-Dolly Parton (Jennifer Kimball and Tom Kimmel); Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Burū Torein)^[131][132]
• "Blue Train (of the Heartbreak Line)" (John D. Loudermilk) by Pat Boone, Bjøro Håland, Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver,^[133] John D. Loudermilk^[134]
• "Blues for Dixie" (O.W. Mayo) by Merle Haggard^[135]
• "Blues in the Night" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) by Harold Arlen, Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Cab Calloway, Eva Cassidy, Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Doris Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Quincy Jones, Ledisi, Julie London, Jimmie Lunceford, Katie Melua, Johnny Mercer, Artie Shaw, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Jo Stafford, Big Joe Turner^[136]
• "Boomer's Story" (Carson Robison), see "The Railroad Boomer"
• "Bound for Hell" (David J) by Love and Rockets,^[137]
• "Boxcar" (Neil Young) by Neil Young^[15]
• "Boxcar Blues" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie,^[138] Maggie Jones^[139]
• "Boxcar's My Home" (Lloene Martin) by Boxcar Willie^[140]
• "Boxcars" (Butch Hancock) by Joe Ely, Rosie Flores^[141]
• "Brakeman's Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) by
  Jimmie Rodgers,^[143] Hank Snow^[144]
• "Brave Engineer, The", three songs with this title: (Fred E. Reynolds), sheet music published 1891;[145] Roy Harvey and North Carolina Ramblers (unknown composer, "The Wreck on the C & O" set to tune of "The Wreck of the Old 97"), 1926;^[146][147] Cisco Houston (Cisco Houston), 1953^[148]
• "Bringin' in the Georgia Mail" (
  Flatt & Scruggs, Don Gibson, Jim & Jesse, Charlie Monroe, Nashville Grass, Reno and Smiley^[149][21]
• "Broke Down Engine" (Blind Willie McTell) by
  John Hammond, Jr., Ernie Hawkins, Colin Linden, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss, Dave "Snaker" Ray, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Martin Simpson, Johnny Winter^[150][132]
• "Broken Down Tramp, The" (
  the Carter Family (1937)^[83][151]
• "Bull Doze Blues" (Henry Thomas) by Henry Thomas^[152]
• "Bullet Train" (Glenn Raymond Tipton / Kenneth Downing) by Judas Priest^[153]
• "BW Railroad Blues" (Townes Van Zandt) by Townes Van Zandt^[154]
• "Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo" (
  the New Lost City Ramblers^[155]

• "C. & O. Blues" by Blind Joe Taggart^[156][96]
• "C. & O. Excursion" by Frank Hutchison^[157]
• "C. & O. Whistle by Fruit Jar Guzzlers^[158]
• "C.C. & O. Blues" by Pink Anderson & Simmie Dooley^[96]
• "C'mon 'N' Ride It (The Train)" (C.C. Lemonhead, Michael Phillips, Jay Ski, B. Whiteby) by
  Quad City DJs^[159][160]
• "
  B.B. King (Duster Bennett); Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard (Jack Kerouac, Jay Farrar); Larry Sparks, Hank Williams (Hank Williams); Dolly Varden (Steve Dawson)^[161][162]
• "Calling Trains" (Traditional)[2] by Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Can't Let Go" (Randy Weeks) by Shemekia Copeland,^[164] Lucinda Williams^[165]
• "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff)^[166] by George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Hank Snow^[70]
• "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (Gordon Lightfoot)^[167]George Hamilton IV, James Keelaghan, Gordon Lightfoot^[168]
• "Cannonball Blues" (Traditional), also known as "Cannonball", "Mr. McKinley" and "Whitehouse Blues", by
  Greenbriar Boys, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Grandpa Jones, Larry Sparks, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Wade Mainer, Bill Monroe, Charlie Monroe, Clyde Moody, New Lost City Ramblers, Sonny Osborne, Utah Phillips, Charlie Poole (1926), Riley Puckett (1929), John Renbourn, Reno and Smiley, Peter Rowan, the Seldom Scene, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Kilby Snow, Doc Watson^{[169][170][171]}
• "Carrollton March, The" (Arthur Clifton), earliest known train song, copyrighted July 1, 1828^[172]
• "
  the Sons of the Pioneers, Tex Ritter, Tom Russell, Pete Seeger^{[173][86][174][175][176][177]}
• "
  the Grateful Dead^[178][21]
• "Casey Jones the Union Scab" by John McCutcheon
• "Casey Jones Was His Name" by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Catch That Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: America (Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell); Lee Emerson (Lee Emerson); John Mayall (John Mayall); Chris Spedding (Chris Spedding); Dan Zanes (Dan Zanes)^[179]
• "Charlie on the M.T.A." — see M.T.A. (song)
• "Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train, The" (W. H. Gove), broadside published before 1867^[180]
• "Chatsworth Wreck, The" (
  Thomas P. Westendorf, 1913)^[181] by Bucky Halker and Johnsburg 3^[182]
• "
  Richard Perlmutter, Oscar Peterson, Elvis Presley, Spike Robinson, Harry Roy, Jan Savitt, the Shadows, Hank Snow, Teddy Stauffer, Dave Taylor, Claude Thornhill, the Tornados, Tuxedo Junction, Guy Van Duser^[70][86]
• "Chicago Bound Blues" by Ida Cox^[86]
• "Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)" (Minnie McCoy) by Memphis Minnie^[183][76]
• "Child of the Railroad Engineer, The", also titled "The Two Lanterns" (Harry V. Neal,
  Gussie L. Davis, 1898) by G.B. Grayson and Henry Whitter^[184]
• "Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)" (Bob Schafer, Dave Ringle, Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington, first recording (with the Washingtonians), 1924^[185]
• "Choo Choo Blues" (Virginians) by Virginians, 1922^[186]
• "
  B.B. King, Jim Kweskin, the Manhattan Transfer, Charlie McCoy, Lucky Millinder, Kenny Roberts, Walter Roland, Widespread Depression Orchestra, Dan Zanes^{[187][188][31]}
• "City of New Orleans" (Steve Goodman) by Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, John Denver, Steve Goodman, Arlo Guthrie, the Limeliters, Willie Nelson, Randy Scruggs, the Seldom Scene, Hank Snow^{[189][70][21][190]}
• "Clear the Track" (Jesse Hutchinson, Dan Emmett), published 1844, by Pete Seeger^[191]
• "Click Clack" (Don Van Vliet) by Captain Beefheart^[192]
• "Click Clack" by Dickey Doo and the Don'ts^[86]
• "Clickety Clack (Kalunk Kalunk)" (Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[193]
• "Coal Train (Stimela)" (Hugh Masekela) by Hugh Masekela^[194]
• "
  Traditional) by Dock Boggs,^[195] R.W. Hampton,^[196] Mary McCaslin,^[197] Michael Martin Murphey^[198]
• "Come on to Nashville, Tennessee" (Walter Donaldson), published 1916^[199]
• "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" (Jack Kerouac) by Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn and Zoot Sims^[200]
• "
  Coroner's Footnote, The" (Corien Steenstra, Henny Wassenaar) by Half Man Half Biscuit^[201]
• "Country Line Special" (Davies) Cyril Davies and His Rhythm And Blues All Stars^[202]
• "C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific Railway) Blues" (Robert Charlebois) by Robert Charlebois^[203]
• "Crash at Crush, The" by the Residents^[204]
• "Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley) by Ozzy Osbourne^[130][160]
• "Crime of the D'Autremont Brothers, The" (Charles Johnson, Paul Johnson) by the Johnson Brothers, 1928^[205][206]
• "Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back)" (
  Maceo & the Macks,^[207] Soul II Soul^[208]
• "Cross-Tie Walker" (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival^[209]
• "Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy" (Jack Routh) by Johnny Cash^[210]

D

• "Daddy Was a Railroad Man" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[138]
• "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Utah Phillips) by John Denver, Joe Glazer, Utah Phillips,^[163]
• "Danville Girl" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer,^[155] Woody Guthrie^[211]
• "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning, 1958),
  the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band^[212][214]
• "Daybreak Express" (Duke Ellington) by John Barry, Duke Ellington^[215]
• "De Gospel Train", see "Gospel Train"
• "Death's Black Train Is Comin'" by
  Rev. J. M. Gates, 1926^[216]
• "
  David Allen Coe, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Nanci Griffith, the Highwaymen, Slim Pickens, Tom Rush, Martin Simpson, Jerry Jeff Walker^[217]
• "Destination Victoria Station" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash^[210]
• "Devil's Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Roy Acuff,^[86] Cliff Carlisle, Mark Erelli (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree); Crooked Fingers (Crooked Fingers); Eric Sardinas (Eric Sardinas)^[218]
• "Did He Ever Return?" by Fiddlin' John Carson^[219]
• "Die Reise (The Journey)" (Herbert Distel), electro-acoustic composition incorporating tape modulations, wind machines and synthesizers^[220][221]
• "Different Trains" (Steve Reich) by Steve Reich^[222]
• "Dixie Flyer", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Gene Clark (Thomas Jefferson Kaye),^[223] Lester Flatt (Marty Stuart),^[224] Randy Newman (Randy Newman),^[21] Muggsy Spanier (Walter Melrose)^[225]
• "Dixie Flyer Blues" (Bessie Smith) by Bessie Smith^[226]
• "Do the Choo-Choo" (Gamble and Huff) by Archie Bell & the Drells^[227]
• "Doggone That Train" (Jimmie Davis) by Jimmie Davis (1930),^[228] Hank Snow^[229]
• "Don't Miss That Train" (Sister Wynona Carr) by
  Sister Wynona Carr, Edwin Hawkins, Joe Liggins, Louisiana Red^[230]
• "Don't Sleep on the Subway" by Petula Clark^[231][21]
• "Dorion Crossing" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[232]
• "Down Bound Train" (Chuck Berry) by Chuck Berry^[233][234]
• "Down by the Railroad Track" (Frank Crumit, Billy Curtis) by Frank Crumit (1930)^[235]
• "
  Four Preps,^[86] Harry James
• "Down Home Special" by Bo Diddley^[86]
• "
  Paul Weller) by the Jam^[236]
• "Down There by the Train" (Kathleen Brennan/Tom Waits) by Johnny Cash,^[237] Tom Waits^[238]
• "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow" (Harry Von Tilzer, Andrew B. Sterling), published 1900^[239]
• "Downbound Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[21]
• "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits) by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Everything but the Girl, Tom Russell Band, Bob Seger, Patty Smyth, Rod Stewart, Tom Waits^[21]
• "Draize Train" by the Smiths^[240]
• "Dream Train" (Charles Newman, Billy Baskette) by Guy Lombardo^[241]
• "
  the Tradewinds, the Weavers^{[242][243][244]}
• "Driving the Last Spike" (Tony Banks, Phil Collins, Mike Rutherford) by Genesis
• "Driver 8" (Bill Berry, Michael Stipe, Mike Mills, Peter Buck) by R.E.M.^[189]
• "
  Drug Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: the Cramps (Lux Interior, Rorscach),^[245] Social Distortion (Mike Ness)^[246]
• "Dulcimer" (David Mallett) by David Mallett^[247]
• "Dummy Line, The" (Unknown, earliest date 1925)^[248] by Michael Cooney, Cindy Mangsen and Anne Hills, Joe Hickerson, Session Americana^[249]
• "Duquesne, Pennsylvania" by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Duquesne Whistle" (Bob Dylan, Robert Hunter) by Bob Dylan^[250][15]
• "Dying Hobo" (Traditional), also titled "Little Stream of Whiskey"; as "Dying Hobo": Jim Glaser, Travis B. Hale and E.J. Derry, Jr. (1927), Kelly Harrell (1926), Roy Harvey and Earl Shirkey (1929), George Lay (1959); as "Little Stream of Whiskey": Norman and Nancy, Dick Burnett and Leonard Rutherford (1926), Doc and Merle Watson^{[251][252][253]}

E

• "Easy Rider Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Joan S. Sommer, Traditional) by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[80]
• "East Coast Racer" (Gregory Spawton) by Big Big Train^[254][255]
• "Eastbound Freight Train" (Grandpa Jones) by Grandpa Jones, Jim & Jesse, Reno and Smiley
• "Eastbound Train, The", originally "Going for a Pardon", (
  Blue Sky Boys (1940), George J. Gaskin (1897), Gibson Brothers (2015), Asa Martin (1928), Riley Puckett (1931), Ernest Stoneman (1928), Dock Walsh (1925), Mac Wiseman (1966)^[257][258]
• "Einstein on the Beach": Act 1, Scene 1 – Train, and Act 2, Scene 2 – Night Train by Philip Glass
• "Eisenbahnballade" (Reinhard Mey) by Reinhard Mey
• "
  Electric Trains" (Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford) by Squeeze^[259]
• "
  the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Kossoy Sisters, Ralph Stanley^[260][151]
• "Engine Driver" (Colin Meloy) by the Decemberists^[261]
• "Engine Engine #9" (Roger Miller) by Roger Miller^[132]
• "Engineer Bill" (Eliza Gilkyson) by Eliza Gilkyson^[262]
• "Engineer's Blues" (Walter Davis) by Walter Davis and Roosevelt Sykes (1931)^[263]
• "Engineer's Child, The" (Carson Robison), based on "Just Set a Light" (1896) and also titled "Red and Green Signal Lights", by Vernon Dalhart (1926),^[264] Hank Snow^[70]
• "Evening Train" (Van Morrison) by Van Morrison^[15][265]
• "Evening Train, The" (Hank Williams, Audrey Williams, 1949), also titled "On the Evening Train", by Johnny Cash^[266] Molly O'Day^[267]
• "Everybody Loves a Train" (David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez) by Los Lobos^[268][269]
• "Express" (Strahil Velchev) by KiNK
• "Express Office, Theg to Us Dead"^[270]
• "Express Orient" by
  Batterie-Fanfare de la Garde Républicaine, 1910^[271]
• "Expressman Blues" (James Rachell) by Sleepy John Estes and Yank Rachell (1930)^[272]

F

• "
  Flatt & Scruggs, Michael Nesmith, Townes Van Zandt, Doc Watson^{[2][260][273]}
• "Fares, Please (The Tram Conductor Girl)" (Bert Lee), copyright 1917^[274]
• "Farmer-Labor Train" (Woody Guthrie) by Woody Guthrie
• "Fast Express" (
  Traditional) by the Delmore Brothers,^[275] the Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys^[276]
• "Fast Freight" (
  Serendipity Singers, Ritchie Valens^[277]
• "Fast Freight Blues" by Sonny Terry^[86]
• "Fast Train Through Arkansas" (
  Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) by the Delmore Brothers,^[278] Wayne Raney^[279]
• "Fatal Run, The" (Cliff Carlisle) by Cliff Carlisle, 1931^[280]
• "Fear of Trains" (Stephin Merritt) by the Magnetic Fields^[281]
• "Fireball Mail" (
  Flatt & Scruggs, Hank Snow^[70][282]
• "First Train Headin' South" (Johnny Horton) by Jimmy Dean, Johnny Horton, Claude King^[283][284]
• "First Train Home", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green),^[285] Imogen Heap (Imogen Heap)^[286]
• "Flag That Train (to Alabam')" (Lindsay McPhail, Irving Rothschild, Eddie Richmond) by Fred Hamm Orchestra, 1925^[287]
• "
  Hank Williams, Jr., the Wood Brothers, Sheb Wooley^{[21][288][86][289][290][70]}
• "Fourth Rail" (Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser) by Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser^[291]
• "Frankfort Special" (Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer, Sid Wayne) by Elvis Presley and the Jordanaires^[292]
• "Freedom Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: B'z (Tak Matsumoto),^[6] Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (Irving Berlin)^[293]
• "
  Ralph Peterson, Jr. (Ralph Peterson, Jr.); Doctor Ross (Isaiah Ross); Johnny Shines (Johnny Shines); Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee)^{[295][21][86]}
• "Freight Train Blues" (John Lair)[296]^[297] by Roy Acuff,^[282] Dan Bern, Boxcar Willie, Anita Carter, Dick Curless, Jimmy Dean, Johnny Duncan, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Red Foley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jack Guthrie, Jack Kingston, Benny Martin, Lynn Morris, Webb Pierce, James Reams, Hans Theessink and Arlo Guthrie, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Doc and Merle Watson, the Weavers, Hank Williams.^[298] Additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Lightnin' Hopkins (Lightnin' Hopkins);^[299] Mississippi Fred McDowell (unknown);^[300] Clara Smith (Clara Smith);^[301][302] Trixie Smith and Sidney Bechet (Thomas A. Dorsey, Clarence Williams)^[303][304]
• "Freight Train Boogie" (
  Red Smiley, Johnny Tyler, Doc Watson, Lightnin' Wells
• "Freight Train from Kyogle" by Darren Hanlon
• "Freight Wreck at Altoona, The", see "Wreck of the 1262"
• "Fremont Train, The" (Traditional), 1856, by Oscar Brand^[305]
• "Friendship Train" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) by Gladys Knight & the Pips^[86]
• "Frisco Depot" by Mickey Newbury, 1971.
• "Frisco Road" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Frisco Train Blues" by
  Texas Alexander, circa 1928^[306]
• "From a Moving Train" (Gerry Beckley) by America
• "Funeral Train" (Rev. J. M. Gates) by
  Rev. J. M. Gates, 1926^[307]

• "Gallopin' Goose" (Chip Davis, Bill Fries) by C. W. McCall^[308][309]
• "The Gambler" (Don Schlitz) by Kenny Rogers^[86]
• "Gandy Dancer's Ball" (Paul Mason Howard, Paul Weston) by Frankie Laine,^[310] the Weavers^[311][312]
• "
  Gentle on My Mind" (John Hartford) by Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin^[313]
• "Georgia on a Fast Train", see "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train"
• "Georgie on the IRT" (Lawrence Block), parody of "Wreck on the C & O", by
  Dave van Ronk^[260]
• "Get Down off of the Train" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) by the Isley Brothers^[314]
• "Get Off the Track! (A Song for Emancipation)" (Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.), published 1844, by Hutchinson Family Singers^[315][316]
• "Get on Board, Little Children" (Traditional, attributed to John M. Chamberlain, 1873)^[317] by the Delta Rhythm Boys, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Red Foley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, the Freedom Singers, Shari Lewis, Ella Mae Morse, Cliff Richard, Paul Robeson, Carl Story and the Rambling Mountaineers, Jack Teagarden, Shirley Temple^[318]
• "Get on Our Train" (Ranjiro Miike, Kyoji Yamamoto) by Bow Wow^[319]
• "Gettin' Up Holler" (Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[148]
• "Ghost Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Ellen Allien (Ellen Allien), Gary Brooker (Gary Brooker), Marc Cohn (Marc Cohn), Elvis Costello (Elvis Costello), Counting Crows (Adam Duritz), Gorillaz (Ian Burden, Gorillaz, Phillip Oakey), Richard Greene (Larry Cansler, Richard Greene), Rickie Lee Jones (Rickie Lee Jones), Mary McCaslin (Mary McCaslin), Carrie Newcomer (Carrie Newcomer), Steve Roach, (Roger King, Steve Roach), Marty Robbins (Bob Nolan, Joe Babcock), Gary Stewart (Gary Stewart, Gregg Allman), the Stranglers (The Stranglers), Justin Sullivan (Justin Sullivan), Summer Camp (Summer Camp), Marion Williams (Thomas Newman), Eric Whitacre (Eric Whitacre)^[320]
• "Girl on a Train" (Scott Harris, Michael Keenan, Myles Mills, Emily Warren) by Skizzy Mars^[321][160]
• "Glendale Train" (John Dawson) by New Riders of the Purple Sage^[322][323]
• "Glory Bound Train", see "That Glory Bound Train"
• "Glory Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Pat Boone (Ferrell), Stephen Fearing (Stephen Fearing), Cissy Houston (Cissy Houston), Ricky Nelson (Baker Knight), Randy Newman (Randy Newman), Johnny Rivers (James Hendricks),^[324]
• "Going Away" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips,^[163] Rosalie Sorrels^[325]
• "Going for a Pardon", original title, see "Eastbound Train"
• "Going Home Train" (Harold Rome)^[326] by Lawrence Winters^[327]
• "Going to Ride That Midnight Train" (
  Bill Chitwood, James A. Bland) by Georgia Yellow Hammers, 1927^[328]
• "Golden Rocket, The" (Hank Snow) by Johnny Horton, Hank Snow^[70]
• "Gone Dead Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Neil Young & Crazy Horse^[332] (Jack Nitzsche, Russ Titelman
  )
• "Gone, Just Like a Train" by Bill Frisell^[333]
• "
  Traditional) by Marian Anderson, Acker Bilk, Eubie Blake, the Four Knights, John Hammond, Jr., Mahalia Jackson, Marie Knight, the Lewis Family, Lightnin' Wells, Mountain Heart, Sons of the Pioneers, Larry Sparks, Hank Snow, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Merle Travis, Willard White^{[334][335][336][337][338][339][340]}
• "Graveyard Train" (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival^[341]
• "Great American Bum" (Harry McClintock), also titled "The Bum Song" and "Three Jolly Bums", by Vernon Dalhart (1928), Ernie Hare (1928, as Hobo Jack Turner), Cisco Houston, Frank Luther (1928), Harry McClintock (c. 1928), Carson Robison (1928, as Dick Holmes)^{[342][343][148]}
• "Great Big Rollin' Railroad" (Music by Richard Proulx, lyrics by Bill Fries, aka C. W. McCall) Union Pacific Railroad's theme song from the late 1970s to mid 1980s
• "
  Great Crush Collision March, The" (Scott Joplin, 1896)^[344] by Scott Joplin^[345]
• "Great Locomotive Chase, The" (Robert W. Smith, 2007) by Robert W. Smith^[346]
• "
  Great Nashville Railroad Disaster (A True Story), The" (Bobby Braddock, Rafe VanNoy) by David Allan Coe^[347]
• "The Great Train Robbery" (actual event, song written by Leslie West, Corky Laing, Felix Pappalardi, Gail Collins Pappalardi) by Mountain^[348]
• "Greenville Trestle High" (James Jett, Joan Jett) by James Reams, Ricochet, Doc Watson^[349]

H

• "Happy Go Lucky Local" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington^[350]
• "Hard Travelin'" (Woody Guthrie) by
  Kingston Trio, Jimmy LaFave, Pete Seeger^[234][351]
• "Harmonica Train" (Sonny Terry) by Sonny Terry and His Night Owls^[86]
• "Harvard Student, The", also titled "The Pullman Train", (attributed to Louis Shreve Osborne, 1871)^[352] by Doney Hammontree^[353]
• "He Is Coming to Us Dead" (
  the New Lost City Ramblers (1966),^[356] Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys (1996)^[357]
• "Hear My Train A' Comin'" (Jimi Hendrix) by Jimi Hendrix^[130]
• "Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles)", adaptation of "500 Miles" (Hedy West), by
  Flatt & Scruggs^[358]
• "Heart Like a Locomotive" (Joe Droukas) by Paul Butterfield^[359]
• "Heartbreak Express, separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Alabama (Jeff Cook, Phil Wolfe)^[361]
• "Heaven Road (天路)" (Yin Qing) by Basang, Tseten Dolma
• "Hell Bound Train" (
  Traditional) by Frank Hutchison^[157][96]
• "Hellbound Train" (Andy Silvester, Kim Simmonds) by Savoy Brown, RSO (Richie Sambora & Orianthi)^[10]
• "Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles from Home)" (
  Jimmie Rodgers's "Waiting for a Train",^[362] by Fats Domino,^[363] Snooks Eaglin^[362]
• "Here Comes the Santa Fe" (Douglas B. Green) by Riders in the Sky^[364]
• "Here We Are, Here We Are! (or Cross ober Jordan)" (
  Daniel D. Emmett, published 1863)^[365]
• "Hey Conductor" (Dave Carter) by
  Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer^[366]
• "
  Hey Porter" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash^[86]
• "Hey, Hey Train" (Marty Stuart) by Johnny Cash^[367]
• "Hobo Bill" by Martha Copeland^[368][369]
• "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" (Waldo O'Neal), published 1929,
  Jimmie Rodgers,^[86] Hank Snow, Doc and Merle Watson
• "Hobo Blues" (Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker) by
  R.L. Burnside, Sleepy John Estes, John Lee Hooker, Big Walter Horton, Dr. Isaiah Ross, Sonny Boy Williamson; additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Peg Leg Howell (unknown); Johnnie Lewis (Johnnie Lewis); Yank Rachell (Yank Rachell); Bukka White (Traditional)^[371][234]
• "Hobo's Lullabye" (Goebel Reeves, 1934)[372] by Graeme Allwright, Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie,^[313] Emmylou Harris, the Kingston Trio, the Nields, Goebel Reeves, Alf Robertson, Kevin Roth, Gary and Randy Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger, Bill Staines, Vanaver Caravan
• "Hobo's Meditation" (Jimmie Rodgers) by
  Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb^[373]
• "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" (Louis Armstrong) by Louis Armstrong^[374]
• "Homebound Train" (Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora) by Bon Jovi^[375]
• "Home in a Boxcar" (Sean Hoots) by Hoots & Hellmouth^[376]
• "Homeward Bound" (Irving Berlin), published 1915, from the musical comedy Watch Your Step^[377]
• "
  Simon and Garfunkel^[86]
• "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade Lux Lewis) by Meade Lux Lewis^[378][76]
• "Hot Box Blues" (Randy Leiner) by Boxcar Willie^[379]
• "Hot Rails to Hell" (Jeff Bouchard,
  Joe Bouchard) by Blue Öyster Cult,^[380] the Meatmen^[381]
• "Hot Town (Fess Williams) by Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orchestra^[382]
• "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone" (Frank Wilson) by the Supremes^[383]
• "
  Doc Wiley, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Yancey, Ma Yancey^{[384][385][386][387][388]}

• "I Do Wonder Is My Mother on That Train?" (Traditional) by Blind Joe Taggart,^[389] Josh White^[390]
• "I.G.Y." (Donald Fagen) by Donald Fagen^[391]
• "I Hate the Train Called the M & O" (Unknown) by Lucille Bogan, 1934^[392]
• "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow", see "Lonesome Whistle"
• "I Like Trains", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Jim & Jesse, Bob Luman (Glenn Sutton); Fred Eaglesmith (Fred Eaglesmith)
• "I Often Dream of Trains" (Robyn Hitchcock)
  Grant Lee Phillips,^[395]
• "I Once Knew a Chap Who Discharged a Function" (
  Gilbert & Sullivan), from Thespis^[396][397]
• "I Packed My Suitcase, Started to the Train" (Jennie Mae Clayton, Will Shade) by Memphis Jug Band, 1927^[398][399]
• "I Remember the Railroad" by Gene Clark^[400]
• "I Took the Last Train" by David Gates^[86]
• "I Want to Be in Dixie" (Irving Berlin), published 1912^[293]
• "I Want to Go to Morrow" (Lew Sully), published 1898,^[401] by Dan W. Quinn, recorded 1902^[402]
• "I Wish My Mother Was on That Train" by Blind Joe Taggart^[96]
• "I'm a Train" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) by Albert Hammond
• "I'm Alabama Bound" (Robert Hoffman, 1909), also titled "Alabama Bound", by the Charlatans,^[403] the Delmore Brothers,^[404] the Greenbriar Boys,^[405] Woody Guthrie,^[406] Mississippi John Hurt,^[407] Papa Charlie Jackson (1925, first known recording),^[408] Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five,^[409] Peter La Farge,^[410] Mance Lipscomb,^[411] Roger McGuinn,^[412] Roger McGuinn and Pete Seeger,^[413] Jelly Roll Morton,^[414] Odetta,^[415] Tom Rush,^[416] Pete Seeger,^[417] Doc Watson,^[418] Doc and Merle Watson^[419]
• "
  the Kentucky Colonels, the Del McCoury Band, Don McLean, Bill Monroe, Phish, the Seldom Scene, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives^[420]
• "I'm Going Home on the Heaven Bound Train" by
  Rev. J.M. Gates, circa 1930^[306]
• "I'm Going Home on the Morning Train" (
  Traditional) by Ruth Brown,^[421] Wilma Lee and Stoney Cooper,^[422] Arizona Dranes^[423] Molly O'Day^[2]
• "I'm Leavin' on That Blue River Train" (Carson Robison) by Gene Autry,^[424] Carson Robison^[425]
• "I'm Leavin' on the Midnight Train" (Lead Belly) by Lead Belly^[426]
• "I'm Leaving on That Late, Late Train" (Solomon Burke) by Solomon Burke^[427]
• "
  John Hammond, Jr., Emmylou Harris, Al Hirt, John Kay, Jerry Lee Lewis, Matt Lucas, Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, the Pagans, Elvis Presley, Professor Longhair, Jerry Reed, the Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, Hank Snow, Steppenwolf, Taste, George Thorogood, Mel Tillis, Ernest Tubb, Tina Turner, Mac Wiseman, Gene Vincent, Faron Young^{[70][86][282]}
• "
  I'm On Fire" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen
• "
  Raffi, Pete Seeger,^[21] Buckwheat Zydeco
• "I've Got a Thing About Trains" (Jack Clement) by Bobby Bare, Jack Clement, Johnny Cash,^[189] Gove Scrivenor
• "If I Die a Railroad Man" (unknown) by Bailey Green, the Tenneva Ramblers^[429][96]
• "In a Boxcar around the World' (Cliff Carlisle), 1936, by Cliff Carlisle^[430]
• "In a Station" (Richard Manuel) by the Band,^[431] Olivia Newton-John^[432]
• "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" (
  Steve Porter (c. 1898), Dan W. Quinn (1896), Kate Smith (1932), Ernest Thompson (1924), Mac Wiseman (1960)^{[434][435][436][437][438][439][440][441]}
• "In the Dark" by Silverstein
• "In the Middle of the House" (
  the Ames Brothers, Milton Berle, Alma Cogan, Rusty Draper, the Johnston Brothers, Vaughn Monroe^[442]
• "
  the Sir Douglas Quintet, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, Larry Sparks, Ralph Stanley, Merle Travis and Mac Wiseman, the Triffids, Dave Van Ronk, Gene Vincent, Dock Walsh (1925),^[443] Doc Watson, Clarence White, Mac Wiseman, Link Wray^[444]
• "Indian Pacific" (Joy Mckean) by Slim Dusty^[445]
• "Into You Like a Train" (Richard Butler) by Jawbreaker,^[446] the Psychedelic Furs^[447]
• "Iron Horse" (Harry Frances, words/Alfred von Rochow, music), published 1870^[448]
• "Iron Horses of Delson, The" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[232]
• "
  Martha Velez, the Winkies
• "It Takes a Worried Man see "Worried Man Blues"

J

• "J.C. Cohen" (Allen Sherman), parody of "Casey Jones" by Allan Sherman^[449]
• "J. C. Holmes Blues" (Gus Horsley, parody of "Casey Jones")^[450] by Bessie Smith^[226]
• "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) by Dark Star Orchestra,^[451] Grateful Dead,^[452] Bruce Hornsby,^[453] Robert Hunter,^[454] Spear of Destiny,^[455] Bob Weir^[456]
• "Jay Gould's Daughter" (Traditional, related to "Milwaukee Blues") by Pete Seeger^[356][457]
• "Jay Goose Is Dead" (Traditional, part of "Jay Gould" family) by J. E. Mainer and His Mountaineers^[457]
• "Jenny on the Railroad" (Traditional) by
  the New Lost City Ramblers^[458] the Horse Flies
• "Jerry, Go Ile (Oil) That Car" by Harry McClintock^[356]
• "Jessie at the Railway Bar", also titled "Jessie, the Belle at the Bar", (G. Ware), broadside published 1884^[459]
• "Jim Blake's Message" (Traditional, copyrighted by
  Phipps Family, Jean Ritchie^[460]
• "Jimmie the Kid" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) by
  Jimmie Rodgers,^[463] Hank Snow^[464]
• "
  Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, Hobart Smith, Chris Smither, Roger Sprung, John Stewart, Ernest Stoneman, the String Cheese Incident, Todd Taylor, George Thorogood, Tony Trischka, the Twilights, Uncle Tupelo, Ben Webster, the Williamson Brothers, Glenn Yarbrough
• "
  Staple Singers, Stringbean, Marty Stuart, Texas Ruby and Curly Fox, Henry Thomas, Hank Thompson, Merle Travis, Porter Wagoner, Steve Wariner, Doc Watson,^[313] Josh White, Paul Winter, Chubby Wise
• "Jos Konduktöörin Nait" (Robbie van Leeuwen, Vexi Salmi) by Paula Koivuniemi and Fredi, both in 1972 in Finland. Original by Shocking Blue: "Never Marry a Railroad Man".^[466]
• "Junction" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[232]
• "Jupiter and the 119" (Todd Sheaffer) by
  Golden Spike
  ceremony in Promontory Summit, Utah, 1869
• "Just Another Whistle Stop" (Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson) by the Band,^[467] Phil Lesh^[468]
• "Just Like This Train" (Joni Mitchell) by Joni Mitchell^[469]
• "Just Missed the Train" (Danielle Brisebois,
  Carly Hennessy, Trine Rein
• "Just Set a Light" (Henry V. Neal,
  Gussie L. Davis), published 1896,^[470] basis for "The Engineer's Child" and "Red and Green Signal Lights"^[264]

• "Kassie Jones" (Furry Lewis) by Furry Lewis^[356]
• "K.C. Blues" (
  Traditional) by Frank Hutchison,^[157] Hobart Smith
• "K.C. Railroad Blues", also titled "K.C. Moan", (Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter, 1927) by Andrew and Jim Baxter, Memphis Jug Band, Riley Puckett^[471][472]
• "King of the Road" by Roger Miller 1964
• "King's Cross" by the Pet Shop Boys
• "King's Special" by
  B.B. King^[86]
• "Kundalini Express" by Love and Rockets

L

• "L'Oeil écoute" ("The Eye Listening") (
  Groupe de Recherches Musicales^[473]
• "L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore, The" (Jean Ritchie)[162] by Norman Blake, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Bobby Goldsboro, Kathy Mattea, Jean Ritchie,^[313] Michelle Shocked
• "L.& W. R.R. Station in Kentucky" (Frank Crumit) by Frank Crumit and Carson Robison (1928)^[474]
• "Lafayette Railroad" (Lowell George, Bill Payne) by Little Feat
• "Lagtrain" (Kaai Yuki) by inabakumori^[475]
• "Last Cannonball" by Mary McCaslin^[93]
• "
  R.L. Burnside, Cephas & Wiggins, Eric Clapton, Crooked Still, Rhett Forrester, Peter Green, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, Jon Langford, Taj Mahal, Keb' Mo', Lonnie Pitchford, Hugh Pool, Rainer Ptacek, the Radiators, Dave "Snaker" Ray, Rising Sons, Dave Sharp, Sunnyland Slim, Dave Van Ronk^[476][477]
• "Last of the Railroad Men" (
  David Johnston) by Yonder Mountain String Band
• "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" (Ray Davies) by the Kinks^[478]
• "Last Old Train's A-Leavin'" (Jean Ritchie) by Jean Ritchie^[479]
• "Last Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Alan White)^[480]
• "Last Train from Poor Valley" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake & Tony Rice
• "Last Train Home", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Blink-182 (Travis Barker, John Feldmann, Mark Hoppus, Matt Skiba);^[160] John Cate (John Cate); Nanci Griffith (Nanci Griffith); Foghat (Bryan Bassett); Lostprophets (Lostprophets); John Mayer (John Mayer); Pat Metheny (Pat Metheny)^[481]
• "Last Train to Amsterdam" by Ray Wylie Hubbard
• "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) by the Monkees^[21][86]
• "Last Train to London" (Jeff Lynne) by Electric Light Orchestra
• "Last Train to San Fernando" by Johnny Duncan and the Blue Grass Boys
• "Last Train to Trancentral" by the KLF
• "Late for the Train" (John Maher, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle, Steve Garvey) by the Buzzcocks^[482]
• "Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound" (Jesse Fuller) by Jesse Fuller^[483][31]
• "Leavin' Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen
• "
  the Stray Cats, George Thorogood, Widespread Panic, the Yardbirds
• "Let Jesse Rob the Train" by Buck Owens^[86]
• "
  the Stoneman Family, Carl Story, Russ Taff, Porter Wagoner^{[484][485][486][487]}
• "Lightning Express, The" (
  Ernest V. Stoneman (1925), Gid Tanner (1924), Ernest Thompson (1924),^{[488][489][490]}
• "Light Rail Transit Line 1" by Justin
• "Lincoln's Funeral Train" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake and Tony Rice^[491]
• "Linin' Track" (Traditional) by Jesse Fuller, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Lead Belly, Taj Mahal, Fred Neil, Omar & the Howlers^[492][234]
• "Little Black Train" (Traditional)
  the Carter Family,^[151] Carlene Carter^[495] Jesse Fuller, Woody Guthrie,^[496]
• "Little Red Caboose" (
  Traditional) by Joanie Bartels, Laurie Berkner, James Coffey,^[497] Ella Jenkins, Elizabeth Mitchell and Lisa Loeb, Odetta, Sweet Honey in the Rock,^[498] Henry Thomas,^[152] Buckwheat Zydeco^[498]
• "Little Red Caboose Behind the Train, The" (Bob Miller,
  Will S. Hays) by Big Bill Campbell, Vernon Dalhart, Paul Warmack and His Gully Jumpers^[499][500]
• "Little Stream of Whiskey", see "Dying Hobo"
• "The Little Train of the Caipira" from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
• "Loco" by Yung Felix, Poke & Dopebwoy (videoclip was filmed in the Railway Museum in Utrecht, the Netherlands)
• "Loco Madi" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra^[501]
• "Locomotion" (Donald Fraser), soundtrack from a 1975 British Transport Films documentary directed by Geoffrey Jones^[502][503]
• "Loco-Motion, The" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) by Little Eva, Grand Funk Railroad, Kylie Minogue^[504]
• "Locomotive", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Michael Burston, Pete Gill, Phil Campbell); Susan Tedeschi (Susan Tedeschi); Alex Winston (Alex Winston, the Knocks
  )
• "Locomotive Breath" (Ian Anderson) by Jethro Tull^[86][15]
• "London Underground" by Amateur Transplants
• "Lonesome Joe" (Roy Acuff) by Roy Acuff,^[505] Boxcar Willie
• "Lonesome Pine Special" (
  the Carter Family^[151]
• "Lonesome Train" (J.J. Cale) by
  J.J. Cale^[506]
• "Lonesome Train" by Johnny Moore's Three Blazers^[86]
• "Lonesome Train (on a Lonesome Track)" (
  Robert Gordon and Link Wray^[507]
• "Lonesome Whistle" (
  Hank Williams, Jr.^[508][313]
• "Long Black Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Lee Hazlewood (Lee Hazlewood); Alexis Korner (Alexis Korner, Duffy Power); Lonnie Johnson (Lonnie Johnson); Allison Moorer (Allison Moorer, Doyle Lee Primm); Josh Turner (Josh Turner);^[288][160] Conway Twitty (Conway Twitty)
• "Long Lost John" (Traditional), also titled "Lost John", by Etta Baker, the Everly Brothers, Curly Fox, Woody Guthrie, Kieran Kane, Leo Kottke, John Lennon, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan and Chris Barber, Doc Watson^[509]
• "Long Train Blues" by Robert Wilkins^[510]
• "Long Train Runnin'" (Tom Johnston) by the Doobie Brothers^[21][160]
• "Long Twin Silver Line" (Bob Seger) by
  Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band^[15]
• "Longest Train I Ever Saw, The" by Frank Hutchison^[157][96]
• "Lord Made a Hobo Out of Me, The" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[379]
• "Lost Train Blues" (
  Traditional) by the Blue Sky Boys, Woody Guthrie, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, the Stanley Brothers^[356][511]
• "
  New Barbarians, Madeleine Peyroux, the Rolling Stones, Tesla^[512][76]
• "Love Is a Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Willie Nile (Willie Nile);^[513] Dwight Twilley (Dwight Twilley)^[514]
• "Love on a Blue Train" (Sheila E.) by Sheila E.^[515]
• "Love on a Real Train" (Tangerine Dream) by Tangerine Dream
• "Love Train" (Gamble and Huff) by the O'Jays^[86][160]
• "Lover Please" (Billy Swan) by Clyde McPhatter^[86]

M

• "M & O Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[516]
• "Mail Train Blues, The" (Blair, Lethwick) by Sippie Wallace^[86]
• "Mainliner" (
  Mike Stoller) by Esther Phillips^[517][31]
• "
  Homer & Jethro,^[518] Patti Page^[86]
• "Mamie's Blues", see "2:19 Blues"
• "Many a Man Killed on the Railroad" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer^[155][519]
• "Marrakesh Express" (Graham Nash) by Crosby, Stills & Nash^[86][15]
• "Master of Ceremony" by Bad Company
• "Matalan Torpan Balladi" (Traditional, Reino Helismaa) by Olavi Virta,^[520] Johannes Virolainen,^[521] Katri Helena,^[522] Jukka Ruusumaa^[523]
• "Mean Conductor Blues" by Ed Bell^[96]
• "Mean Old Frisco (Mean Old Frisco Blues)Eric Clapton, Arthur Crudup, Snooks Eaglin, Little Walter, Muddy Waters^[362][234]
• "Mean Ol' Lonesome Train" by (Otis Hicks, J. West) by the Lightnin' Slim
• "Mean Old Train" by John Lee Hooker^[86]
• "Meet Me at the Station, Dear" (Sam L. Lewis, Joe Young, Ted Snyder), sheet music published 1917^[524]
• "Metro, The" by Berlin
• "Midnight Cannonball" by Big Joe Turner^[86]
• "Midnight Flyer", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  the Osborne Brothers, Kenny Rogers (Paul Craft, Ken Harding);^[525][15] Nat King Cole (Robert Moseley, Mayme Pauline Watts);^[526] the Pryor Band, 1904 (Arthur Pryor)^[527]
• "Midnight on the Great Western" (Benjamin Britten, Thomas Hardy), from Winter Words, Op. 52^[528]
• "Midnight Special" (Traditional) by Harry Belafonte,^[21] Creedence Clearwater Revival^[21] Gladys Knight & the Pips,^[288][86] Lead Belly,^[313] Johnny Rivers,^[86] Ken Whiteley
• "Midnight Train" (
  Monkees
• "Midnight Train, The" (Traditional) published by Dorothy Scarborough^[529] and Carl Sandburg;^[530] and recorded by Dan Zanes (2004)
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" (Jim Weatherly) by Gladys Knight & the Pips^[531][160]
• "Midnight Train to Memphis" (Chris Stapleton, Mike Henderson) by Chris Stapleton^[532][160]
• "Might As Well" by Jerry Garcia^[533]
• "Mile Long Train" (Nelson) by Jimmy Dean^[534]
• "Milk Train", separate songs, artist followed by composer:
  Everly Brothers (Tony Romeo);^[535] Jefferson Airplane (Papa John Creach, Grace Slick, Roger Spotts)^[536]
• "Milwaukee Blues" (Traditional, related to "Jay Gould's Daughter") by Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, 1930^[457]
• "Miniature Railway" from the Battersea Park Suite (William Blezard) by Royal Ballet Sinfonia^[537]
• "Mobile and Western Line" (Jazz Gillum) by Big Bill Broonzy^[538]
• "Molly on a Trolley" (William Jerome, Jean Schwartz) by Vernon Dalhart and Betsy Lane Shepherd (1922)^[539]
• "Monday Morning Choo Choo" (Rich Dodson) by the Stampeders
• "Monkey and the Engineer, The" (Jesse Fuller) by
  Dave Rawlings Machine
• "Mormon Engineer, The" (Oscar Brand) by Oscar Brand
• "Morningtown Ride" (Malvina Reynolds) by Stan Butcher, Brendan Grace, the Irish Rovers, the Limeliters, Bob McGrath, Raffi, Malvina Reynolds, the Seekers, the Wiggles feat. Jimmy Little
• "Moskow Diskow" by Telex^[540]
• "Move Over" (Irving Berlin), published 1914^[293]
• "Mr. Engineer" (Jimmy Martin,
  J.D. Crowe & the New South, Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice^[541]
• "Mr. Conductor" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[516]
• "M.T.A./"Charlie on the M.T.A"", also titled "The Man Who Never Returned", by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes, most famously performed by the Kingston Trio in 1959.^[21]
• "My Baby's Gone" (Gary Atkinson, Hazel Houser,
  Joe Josea) by Blind Willie McTell^[542]
• "My Cutey's Due at Two-to-Two Today" (Albert Von Tilzer, Leo Robin)^[543] by Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer (with Billy May and His Orchestra),^[544] Firehouse Five Plus Two,^[545] Betty Hutton,^[546] Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra,^[547] Ted Weems Orchestra (1926)^[543]
• "My Love Affair with Trains" (Dolly Parton) by Merle Haggard^[135]
• "My My Metrocard" (Le Tigre) by Le Tigre^[548]
• "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" (
  Jimmie Rodgers) by Merle Haggard^[135]
• "My Saviour's Train" (Charlie Monroe) by Charlie Monroe^[549][76]
• "My Trains" by Lemon Demon.
• "My Wife's Gone to the Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!)" (George Whiting, Irving Berlin), published 1909^[293]
• "Mysteries of a Hobo's Life" (T-Bone Slim) by Cisco Houston^[550]
• "Mystery Train" (Junior Parker, Sam Phillips) by Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley,^{[93][132][86]}

N

• "Never Gonna Stop This Train" (James Keelaghan) by James Keelaghan^[551]
• "Never Marry a Railroad Man" (Robbie van Leeuwen) by Shocking Blue^[552]
• "New Delhi Freight Train" (Terry Allen) by Terry Allen, Little Feat, Ricky Nelson^[553]
• "New Frisco Train, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[66]
• "
  Traditional) by Mike Seeger^[554][356]
• "New Orleans Streamline" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[66]
• "New Railroad" (
  Traditional) by Crooked Still^[555]
• "New River Train" (
  Ernest V. Stoneman (1929), Doc Watson, Henry Whitter (1923)^{[557][558][86][559][560][157]}
• "New Train", separate songs, artist followed by composer: Paul "Earthquake" Pena with Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders (Paul "Earthquake" Pena);^[561] John Prine (John Prine)^[562]
• "New York Hobo, The" by
  Darby & Tarlton^[510]
• "New York Trains, The" (Woody Guthrie, Del McCoury), by the Del McCoury Band^[563]
• "Nickel Plate Road 759" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Night the Trains Broke Down" by (P. F. Sloan) by P. F. Sloan^[564]
• "
  Allman Brothers Band, Joan Baez, the Band, Big Country,^[565] the Black Crowes,^[566] John Denver, Tanya Tucker,^[565] Tammy Wynette
• "
  the Timewriter, Tindersticks, Visage^[568]
• "Night Train of Valhalla" (John Fahey) by John Fahey^[569]
• "Night Train to Memphis" (
  Hank Williams, Jr., Mac Wiseman^[570][525]
• "Night Train to Munich" by Al Stewart^[571]
• "Night Trip to Buffalo, A" by American Quartet^[572]
• "Nighttime in the Switching Yard" (Jorge Calderón, David Lindell, Waddy Wachtel, Warren Zevon) by Warren Zevon
• "Nighttrain" (
  Saul Hudson, Duff McKagan, Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin) by Guns N' Roses^[130]
• "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) by
  the Osborne Brothers, John Prine, Tony Rice, Tom Rush, the Stanley Brothers, Merle Travis, Townes Van Zandt, Doc and Merle Watson^[573][574]
• "No Leaf Clover" (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich) by Metallica and San Francisco Symphony^[575]
• "No More Trains to Ride" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[135]
• "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore" (Harry Nilsson) by Harry Nilsson^[576]
• "Northbound" (Don Walker) by Cold Chisel^[577]
• "Northshore Train" (Heidi Berry) by Heidi Berry^[578]
• "Nowhere Fast" (Johnny Marr, Morrissey) by the Smiths^[579]
• "Number 12 Train" (Josh White) by Josh White^[580]
• "No. 29" (Wallace) by Wesley Wallace^[581]

O

• "Off the Rails" by Bottleneck ft. Ryan Upchurch
• "O & K Train Song" by Addie Graham
• "Oh! Mr Porter" by George Le Brunn and his brother Thomas (1892)
• "Oh, You Engineer" by Judy Henske^[582]
• "Oil Tanker Train" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[583]
• "Old Buddy, Goodnight" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues, The" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald^[584]
• "Old Train" (
  Seldom Scene^[162]
• "Old Train 29" (
  Traditional) by Geoff Muldaur
• "Old Trains" by Wonk Unit[585]
• "On a Slow Train through Arkansaw" (Al Bernard) by Al Bernard (1925)^[586]
• "
  Stanley Murphy), published 1914,^[587] by American Quartet, recorded 1915^[588]
• "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer) by Judy Garland,^[21][86] Harry Warren,^[21][190] Johnny Mercer^[21][190]
• "On the Evening Train", see "The Evening Train"
• "On the Honeymoon Express" (James Kendis) by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan (1914)^[589]
• "On the Train" by Janis Ian^[590]
• "One After 909" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) by the Beatles^[15]
• "Only a Hobo" (Bob Dylan) by Hamilton Camp, Hazel Dickens, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards, Lucky 7, Augie Meyers, Totta Näslund and Kajsa Grytt, the Seldom Scene, Rod Stewart. Additional song with this title: (Woody Guthrie) by Woody Guthrie.^[591]
• "
  the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, Seatrain, Hank Snow, the Stanley Brothers, the String Cheese Incident, Marty Stuart, Hank Williams, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• "
  Metropole Orchestra, Joe Zawinul^[592]
• "Oxford & 'Hampton Railway" by Jon Raven - c.1960s. Lyrics first written 1853, coinciding with the opening of the railway.

P

• "Paddy on the Railway" (Traditional) by the Wolfe Tones^[21]
• Pacific 231 (Arthur Honegger)^[593]
• "Pan American" (Hank Williams) by Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie, Dave Dudley, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, the Seldom Scene, Hank Snow,^[70] Larry Sparks, Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr.
• "Pan American Blues" (DeFord Bailey) by DeFord Bailey^[594]
• "Pan American Boogie" (
  Rabon Delmore) by Ray Campi, the Delmore Brothers, Wayne Raney and Brownie McGhee, Robin and Linda Williams
• "Panama Limited" (Bukka White) by Ada Brown,^[86] Mike Cross, Robert Johnson, Doug MacLeod, Tom Rush, Bukka White
• "Pan American Man" (Cliff Carlisle) by Cliff Carlisle^[595]
• "A Passage to Bangkok" (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart) by Rush^[15][596]
• "Pat Works on the Railroad" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer^[155]
• "Pea Vine Blues" (Charlie Patton) by Rory Block, Charley Patton, John Sinclair, Big Joe Williams^[510][597]
• "Peace Train" (Cat Stevens) by Cat Stevens^[86][160]
• "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) by the Rance Allen Group, Lee Atwater, Jeff Beck, George Benson, the Blind Boys of Alabama, Billy Bragg, Eva Cassidy, Glen Campbell, Paul Carrack, the Chambers Brothers, Petula Clark, David Clayton-Thomas, Phil Collins, Tom Constanten, John Denver, the Doors, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards, the Everly Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Janie Fricke, Al Green, Glen Hansard, the Housemartins, the Impressions,^[86] Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Lyfe Jennings and Alicia Keys, Wynonna Judd, Bap Kennedy, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Greg Lake, George Lynch, the Manhattans, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Curtis Mayfield, the Meters, Ronnie Milsap, Aaron Neville, John Oates, Jimmy Osborne, Johnny Osbourne, Maceo Parker, the Persuasions, Johnny Rivers, David Sanborn, Dusty Springfield, Slim & the Supreme Angels, Pops Staples, Rod Stewart, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Hans Theessink, Phil Upchurch, Vanilla Fudge, Michelle Wright, Yellowman^[598]
• "Per Spoor (Kedeng Kedeng)", Dutch-English translation "By Rail (train sounds)", (Guus Meeuwis) by Guus Meeuwis^[599]
• "Phoebe Snow" (Utah Phillips) by Bryan Bowers, Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Play a Train Song" (Todd Snider) by Todd Snider^[600]
• "Please Mr. Conductor Don't Put Me Off the Train" (J. Fred Helf, E.P. Moran), published 1898 by Byron G. Harlan, see "Lightning Express" for recordings
• "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" (Traditional) by Ewan MacColl, the Weavers, Brass Farthing, Authority Zero, Luke Kelly with the Dubliners, the Wolfe Tones, the Tossers, the Kelly Family, Shane MacGowan, the Pogues and Ferocious Dog.
• "Poinçonneur des Lilas, Le" by Serge Gainsbourg
• "Porters on a Pullman Train" (Charles D. Crandall), published 1880,^[601] by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, 1923^[602]
• "Poverty Train" (Laura Nyro) by Laura Nyro^[603]
• "Princess of the Night" by Saxon^[604]
• "Pullman Porter's Ball" (John Stromberg) by Metropolitan Orchestra (1901)^[605]
• "Pullman Porter Blues" by Clarence Williams, 1922^[306]
• "Pullman Porters Parade" (Maurice Abrahams, Ren G. May), published 1913^[606]

Q

• "Queen of the Rails" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[163]
• "Quiet Town" by the Killers^[607]

R

• "Ragtime Engineer, The" (
  Clay Smith), published 1912^[608]
• "Rail, op. 57" (Wilfred Josephs), soundtrack for Rail, 1967 documentary for British Transport Films directed by Geoffrey Jones^[503]
• "Rail Rhythm" by Cab Calloway^[350]
• "Rail Road March" (Charles Meineke), copyrighted July 3, 1828^[609]
• "Railroad", separate songs, artists followed by composers:
  Melanie (Melanie Safka),^[614] Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues,^[615] Status Quo (Francis Rossi, Kenny Young),^[616] Piero Umiliani (Piero Umiliani),^[617] the Zutons (The Zutons)^[618]
• "Railroad Bill" (Traditional) by Dave Alvin, Joan Baez, Etta Baker, Andrew Bird, Andy Breckman, Greg Brown, Cephas & Wiggins, Crooked Still, Lonnie Donegan, Bob Dylan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Vera Hall, David Holt and Doc Watson, Cisco Houston, Frank Hovington, Frank Hutchison, John Jackson, Taj Mahal, J. E. Mainer and His Mountaineers, Roger McGuinn, the New Christy Minstrels, Riley Puckett, Hobart Smith, Roba Stanley, Bob Stanley and Bill Peterson, Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee^{[86][619][620][313]}
• "Railroad Blues", separate songs identified by composers in parentheses, sorted by recording artists:
  Sam McGee, 1934;^[629][630] New Lost City Ramblers (San McGee), 1961;^[631][630] Luckey Roberts (Luckey Roberts), 1958;^[632] Trixie Smith (Trixie Smith), 1925;^[86][633]
• "Railroad Boomer, The" (Carson Robison, 1929)[634] by Carson Robison and Frank Luther;^[635] recorded as "Boomer's Story" by Ry Cooder, North Mississippi Allstars;^[636] recorded as "The Rambler" by Cisco Houston^[148]
• "Railroad Corral, The" (Traditional, credited to Joseph Mills Hanson, 1904) by Rex Allen, Don Edwards, Juni Fisher, Michael Martin Murphey, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Gregg Smith Singers^[637][638]
• "Railroad Jim" (Nat Vincent) by Edward Meeker, 1916^[639]
• "Railroad Lady" (Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker, 1973) by Lefty Frizzell, Jimmy Buffett, Merle Haggard, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, J.D. Crowe and the New South, Todd Snider
• "Railroad Porter Blues" by Sylvester Weaver, circa 1928^[306]
• "Railroad Section Gang, The" by Peerless Quartet (1910)^[640]
• "Railroad Tramp" (unknown) by Dock Boggs^[494]
• "Railroading on the Great Divide" (Sara Carter Bayes, 1952)
  the Carter Family,^[313] Bill Clifton, New Lost City Ramblers^[642]
• "Railroadin' and Gamblin'" (Traditional) by Uncle Dave Macon,^[86] New Lost City Ramblers
• "Railroadin' Some" (Henry Thomas) by Rory Block,^[643] Henry Thomas^[31]
• "Rainy Train" (Toshihiro Niima) by Bow Wow
• "Rambler, The" (Traditional, see "Railroad Boomer") by Cisco Houston^[148][635]
• "Rambler Blues" by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[96]
• "
  Hank Williams, Jr.,^[644] Robin and Linda Williams, Robin and Linda Williams,^[647] Yat-Kha, Steve Young^[644]
• "
  Robert Lockwood, Jr., John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Lucinda Williams, Jesse Colin Young^[648]
• "Rambling Hobo" (Traditional) by Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley^[649]
• "Reckless Motorman, The" (
  Traditional) by Mike Seeger^[554]
• "Red and Green Signal Lights" (G. B. Grayson), based on "Just Set a Light" (1896) and also titled "Engineer's Child", by G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter^{[650][96][264]}
• "Red Streamliner" (Bill Payne, Fran Tate) by Little Feat^[651]
• "Reuben's Old Train" by Bill Keith and Jim Rooney
• "Reuben's Train", also titled "Reuben" and "Ruben's Train" (Traditional)^[334] by Ray Charles, the Deighton Family, the Dillards, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Tony Furtado, Beppe Gambetta and Tony Trischka, Josh Graves, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Michael Hurley, Rob Ickes, Harry Manx, Andy Irvine's Mozaik (with Bruce Molsky), Frank Proffitt, Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, Billy Strange and Don Parmley, Doc Watson, Doc and Merle Watson, Eric Weissberg and Marshall Brickman, Patrick Sky^[652]
• "Ride This Train" (Harvey Watkins) by the Canton Spirituals
• "Riding in de Limited Train" (Frank Dumont), published 1880^[653]
• "Riding on That Train 45" (Traditional, version of "Train 45") by Wade Mainer and Zeke Morris, New Lost City Ramblers^[654][76]
• "Riding on the Dummy Line" (Sam Booth, F.G. Carnes), published 1885^[655]
• "Riding on the L&N" (Lionel Hampton/Dan Burley, 1946) by Dr. Feelgood, John Mayall, John Mayall and Paul Butterfield, Nine Below Zero, Steamhammer^[656]
• "Right Track Wrong Train" by Cyndi Lauper^[657]
• "Rise and Fall of the Steam Railroad, The" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[232]
• "Roamer, The" (
  Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[148]
• "Road Train" (Stu Mackenzie) by
  King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk", chant from the University of Kansas (1866)^[658]
• "Rock Island" from the Music Man by Meredith Willson
• "Rock Island Blues" (Furry Lewis) by Furry Lewis^[659]
• "
  Rooftop Singers, Pete Seeger, Ringo Starr, the Tarriers, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, the Travellers, the Weavers, Dan Zanes^{[660][356][661][662]}
• "Rock N Roll Train" (Angus Young, Malcolm Young) by AC/DC^[130]
• "Rocking on the Railroad" (Anderson) Chuck Berry^[663]
• "Roll On Buddy" (Traditional), related to "
  Red Smiley and the Bluegrass Cut-Ups, Ralph Stanley, Doc and Merle Watson, the Wilburn Brothers, Vern Williams, the Wood Brothers^{[664][665][666]}
• "
  the New Lost City Ramblers, Norma Jean, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, David Rogers, Leon Russell, the Stonemans, the String Cheese Incident, Conway Twitty, Doc Watson, Willie Nelson^[667][668]
• "Runaway Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Jeff Berlin (Jeff Berlin); Blue Rodeo (Greg Keelor, Jim Cuddy); Rosanne Cash, Crooked Still, (John Stewart); Kasey Chambers (Kasey Chambers, Werchon); Joe Cocker (Ollie Marland);^[669] Vernon Dalhart (Robert E. Massey; Harry Warren, Carson Robison);^[670] Eliza Gilkyson (Eliza Gilkyson);, Guitar Shorty (Tommy McCoy); Ray Wylie Hubbard (Ray Wylie Hubbard); Elton John (Bernie Taupin, Elton John, Olle Romo); Henry Mancini (Henry Mancini); Steve Morse Band (Steve Morse); John Stewart (John Stewart); Stray Cats (Brian Setzer); Soul Asylum (Dave Pirner);^[160] Randy Travis (Jerry Steve Smith, Larry Gatlin); Dale Watson (Dale Watson); Geddy Lee (Geddy Lee)^[669]
• "
  Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers^[671][15]

• "Salvation Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers:
  Lloyd Chalmers
  )
• "Samuduru Devi" by Neville Fernando and Los Caballeros[672]
• "San Francisco Bound" (Irving Berlin), published 1913^[673]
• "San Joaquin" by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show
• "Scenic Railway, for piano, H. 115" (Arthur Honegger) by Jean-François Antonioli^[674][675]
• "Section Gang Blues" (Texas Alexander) by
  Texas Alexander^[676]
• "
  the Ames Brothers, Tony Bennett, Les Brown with Doris Day, Ray Charles, Buck Clayton, Rosemary Clooney, Rita Coolidge, Fats Domino, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, the Four Lads, Harpers Bizarre, Harry James, Bert Kaempfert, Sammy Kaye, Julie London, Hal McIntyre, the Merry Macs, Jane Monheit, Willie Nelson, Sue Raney, Emmy Rossum, Dinah Shore, Ben Sidran, Frank Sinatra, the Singers Unlimited, Hank Snow, Ringo Starr, Steve and Eydie, Margaret Whiting^[677]
• "Shadows on a Dime" (Ferron) by Ferron^[678][679]
• "She Caught the Katy (and Left Me a Mule to Ride)" (Taj Mahal, Yank Rachell) by the Blues Brothers, Henry Kaiser, Steve Kimock, Harvey Mandel and Freddie Roulette, Albert King, Taj Mahal, Wet Willie, the Youngbloods^[680]
• "She Caught the Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Big Bill Broonzy (Big Bill Broonzy),^[538] UB40 (Joe Monsano)^[681]
• "
  Traditional) by Vernon Dalhart (1925),^[682] Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters (1927), Uncle Dave Macon and John McGhee (1928),^[683] Carson Robison and Frank Luther (1928),^[684] Pete Seeger (1953)^[685] Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers (1927), Henry Whitter (1924)^[683]
• "
  Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Ray Ellis, Alice Faye, Ruby Keeler, Hal Kemp, Cub Koda, Buddy Morrow^[686]
• "Silver Rails" (Jack Newman) by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Silver Train" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) by Carla Olson and Mick Taylor, Cheater Slicks, Naked Prey, the Rolling Stones, Roxx Gang, Sonic Youth, Johnny Winter^[15][687]
• "Silverton, The" (C. W. McCall, Chip Davis) by C. W. McCall
• "Six O' Clock Train and a Girl with Green Eyes, The" (John Hartford) by John Hartford^[688]
• "Six Times a Day (The Trains Came Down)" (Dan Fulkerson) by Dick Curless^[689]
• "
  Robert Haimer) by America
• "Slow Train" (Flanders and Swann) by Flanders and Swann (1963)
• "Slow Train" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan (1980)^[130]
• "Slow Train to Dawn" by the The (1986)
• "Slow Train to Nowhere" (John Mayall) by John Mayall^[690]
• "Smoke Along the Track" by Stonewall Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris
• "
  George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Watermelon Slim, Muddy Waters, Howard Werth, Chris Whitley, Widespread Panic, the Yardbirds^{[86][189][691][234]}
• "Snow" (Johnny Hawksworth), soundtrack for 1963 documentary for British Transport Films directed by Geoffrey Jones^[692]
• "So Many Roads, So Many Trains" (Marshall Paul) by
  John Hammond, Jr., Slim Harpo, Cub Koda, Otis Rush^[693]
• "Sonderzug nach Pankow", Special Train to Pankow (Mack Gordon, Udo Lindenberg, Harry Warrenby) by Udo Lindenberg
• "Soul Train" by Simon Marrable
• "Southbound", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Hank Snow (Ned Miller),^[70] Doc and Merle Watson (Merle Watson)^[694][629]
• "Southbound Train" (Big Bill Broonzy) by
  the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Dennis Linde), Steel River (Bob Forrester, Rob Cockell, Tony Dunning)^[695]
• "Southern Blues, The" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy, 1935^[696][697]
• "Southern Cannon-Ball" by
  Jimmie Rodgers^[86]
• "Southern Pacific" by Neil Young
• "Southern Railroad Blues" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake^[698]
• "Spanish Train" (Chris de Burgh, 1975) by Chris de Burgh
• "Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)" (Sleepy John Estees, 1938) by Sleepy John Estes^[699][234]
• "Special Streamline" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[120][234]
• "Spike Driver Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt^[510]
• "Stardust Train" (Tak Matsumoto) by B'z
• "Starlight on the Rails" (Utah Phillips) by
  Flatt & Scruggs, Utah Phillips, Rosalie Sorrels^[700]
• "Station Approach" by Elbow
• "
  Monkees
• "Steel A-Goin' Down" (Buell Kazee) by Buell Kazee, Jim Smoak^[701]
• "
  J.P. Cormier, Jim Croce, George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Fred McKenna, the Seldom Scene, Spanky and Our Gang, Mac Wiseman^[702][703]
• "Steel Rails" (Louisa Branscomb) by Alison Krauss, John Denver^[704][705]
• "Stephenson's Rocket" (Nigel Hess) by London Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Nigel Hess, conductor), overture for wind band celebrating the U.K.'s famous steam locomotive^[706][707]
• "Stop Rockin' That Train" (Ivory Joe Hunter) by Ivory Joe Hunter^[708]
• "Stop That Train" (Peter Tosh) by
  the Wailers^[709]
• "Stop This Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Kevin Ayers (Kevin Ayers)^[710] John Mayer (John Mayer)^[160]
• "Streamline Train" (Red Nelson) Michael Chapman, Lonnie Donegan, Catfish Keith, Alexis Korner, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Van Morrison, Red Nelson (1936), Railroad Bill, The Vipers Skiffle Group
• "Streamlined Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) by
  Carl Smith, Hank Snow, Doc and Merle Watson, Mac Wiseman^[712]
• "Streetcar Blues" (Sleepy John Estes) by Sleepy John Estes^[713]
• "
  John Woloschuk, Dino Tome) by Klaatu^[714]
• "Subway Funeral" by Thursday
• "Subway Train" (Johnny Thunders, David Johansen) by New York Dolls^[715]
• "Sucker Train Blues" (Dave Kushner, Duff McKagen, Slash, Matt Sorum, Scott Weiland) by Velvet Revolver^[12]
• "Sunnyland Train" (Elmore James) by Elmore James^[716]
• "Sunset Limited" (Harry J. Lincoln), published 1910^[717]
• "Sunshine Special" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) by Roy Acuff,^[519] Blind Lemon Jefferson^[718][96]
• "Super Chief by Count Basie^[350]
• "Super Rifle (Balkan Express)" on J.U.F. by Gogol Bordello and Tamir Muskat^[719]
• "Sweet Indiana Home" (Walter Donaldson) by Aileen Stanley (1922)^[720]

T

• "
  Delta Rhythm Boys,^[31] Duke Ellington, Harry James, Salena Jones, Gene Krupa, Charles Mingus, James Moody, Tito Puente, Zoot Sims^[721] Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys,^[722] Teddy Wilson^[721]
• "Take the First Train Out of Town" (Freddie Bell, Pep Lattanzi) by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys
• "Talking Subway" (Woody Guthrie), by Woody Guthrie, John Greenway, Pat Foster/Dick Weissman^[723]
• "Tallahassee" (Frank Loesser) by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Alan Ladd and Dorothy Lamour, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore and Woody Herman^[724]
• "Taumarunui (on the Main Trunk Line)" (Peter Cape) by Peter Cape^[725][726]
• "Te Ví En Un Tren" (Enanitos Verdes) by Enanitos Verdes^[727]
• "Tell the Engineer" (Fred Eaglesmith) by Fred Eaglesmith^[728]
• "Terminus" (Ron Grainer), soundtrack from 1961 documentary by John Schlesinger for British Transport Films^[503][729]
• "Texas and Pacific" (Jack Wolf Fine, Joseph E. Hirsch) by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five^[350]
• "Texas Eagle" (Steve Earle) by Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band^[189]
• "Texas Silver Zephyr, The" (Red Steagall) by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Texas, 1947" (Guy Clark) by
  Robert Earl Keen, Jr.^[732]
• "Texas Trilogy, Part 2: Trainride" (Steven Fromholz) by Steven Fromholz,^[733] Lyle Lovett^[734]
• "That Glory Bound Train" (Odell McLeod),^[735] also titled "Glory Bound Train", by Roy Acuff, Pat Boone, Slim Dusty, Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, Bukka White^{[736][737][738]}
• "That Railroad Rag" (Nat Vincent, Ed Bimberg)
  Collins and Harlan^[742]
• "That Same Old Dotted Line" by Hank Snow^[70]
• "The Engineers Don't Wave From the Trains Anymore" (Tom T Hall) by the Lynn Morris Band (1992)
• "The Okaihau Express" by Peter Cape^[743]
• "The Way His Collar Falls" by Saves the Day
• "There's a Little Box of Pine on the 7:29" (Joseph Ettlinger,
  Doc Roberts, Hank Snow, Mac Wiseman^[744]
• "There's a Train" (Sherman Holmes) by
  Holmes Brothers^[31]
• "There's a Train Out for Dreamland" (Carl Kress, Frederich H. Heider) by Nat King Cole
• "There's Lots of Stations on My Railroad Track" (Joe McCarthy, Leo Edwards) by Ada Jones and Billy Murray (1914),^[745] Ed Morton (1912)^[746]
• "Third Engine" by Saves the Day
• "This Train" (Traditional, also recorded as "This Train Is Bound for Glory")^[747] by Louis Armstrong, Big Bill Broonzy, Hylo Brown, James Coffey, Alice Coltrane, Steve Dawson, Sandy Denny, D.O.A., Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Duncan, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Gibson, Golden Gate Quartet, Woody Guthrie,^[21] Cisco Houston, David Houston, Janis Ian, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Jenkins, Sleepy LaBeef, the Limeliters, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Ziggy Marley, Mason Dixon, Tom and Ben Paley, Carlton Pearson, Peter, Paul and Mary, Utah Phillips, Edmundo Ros, Bob Rowe, Pete Seeger, the Seekers, Hank Snow, Billy Strange, Jack Teagarden, Sister Rosetta Tharpe,^[21] Hank Thompson, Randy Travis, the Verlaines, Bunny Wailer, Elder Roma Wilson, Buckwheat Zydeco
• "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) by Elton John^[748]
• "This Train's a Clean Train" (Traditional, related to "This Train") by Joe Glazer^[155]
• "Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down" (Clarence Williams) by Bessie Smith^[749]
• "Ticket Agent Blues" (Blind Willie McTell) by Blind Willie McTell^[86]
• "Time Flies By (When You're A Driver Of A Train)" by Half Man Half Biscuit
• "Timetable Blues" (Traditional), sheet music published 1911,^[750] by Captain Appleblossom (1929),^[751] New Lost City Ramblers (1968)^[750]
• "To Morrow" (Lew Sully), published 1898 as "I Want to Go to Morrow", by Bob Gibson,^[752] the Kingston Trio,^[753] Dan W. Quinn (1902)^{[754][755][756]}
• "Too Too Train Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[757][76]
• "Took the Last Train" by David Gates, 1978
• "
  Tony Martin, Art Mooney,^[86] Wayne Newton, Kid Ory, Buddy Rich, Ted Fio Rito, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Brent Spiner, Hop Wilson, Jackie Wilson^[759]
• "Train" by Mose Allison
• "Train" by Neyla Pekarek^[760]
• "Train, The", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Tim Buckley (Tim Buckley);^[761] King's X (Jerry Gaskill, Doug Pinnick, Ty Tabor);^[762] Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis)^[763][160]
• "Train 1262", see "Wreck of the 1262
• "The Train (1964 film)" with music by Maurice Jarre
• "Train 45" (Traditional, related to "Reuben's Train"/"900 Miles") by
  the New Lost City Ramblers, Sonny Osborne, Earl Scruggs, the Stanley Brothers, Marty Stuart, Mac Wiseman^{[764][650][765]}
• "Train A-Travelin'" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan, under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt^[766]
• "Train Across Ukraine" (Annette Ezekiel Kogan) by Golem^[767]
• "Train Blues" (Woody Guthrie) by Woody Guthrie and Sonny Terry^[626]
• "Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home, The" (Greg Brown) by
  the Nashville Bluegrass Band
• "(Un) Train d'Enfer" by Marie Philippe^[768]
• "Train Fare Home" (Muddy Waters), also titled "Train Fare Blues" and "Win My Train Fare Home (If I Ever Get Lucky)", by Robert Plant, Muddy Waters^{[234][769][770]}
• "Train for Auschwitz" (Tom Paxton) by Tom Paxton^[766]
• "Train from Kansas City" (Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry) by the Shangri-Las^[771]
• "Train Home" (Chris Smither) by Patty Larkin,^[772] Rich Moore and Mollie O'Brien,^[773] Chris Smither^[774]
• "
  Train in the Distance" (Paul Simon) by Paul Simon^[775]
• "Train in Vain" (Mick Jones, Joe Strummer)^[776] by the Clash,^[130] Annie Lennox,^[777] Dwight Yoakam^[778]
• "Train Is Gone, The", separate songs with this title, artist followed by composer:
  Michael Bloomfield (Michael Bloomfield)^[780]
• "
  Yardbirds^[130][189]
• "Train Kept Rolling On" (Jem Finer) by the Pogues^[781]
• "Train Leaves Here This Morning" (Bernie Leadon, Gene Clark) by the Byrds, Gene Clark, Dillard & Clark, Eagles, the Seldom Scene^[782]
• "Train Long-Suffering" (Nick Cave) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds^[783]
• "Train Man" (Bob Seger) by the Bob Seger System^[784]
• "Train Music" (Percy Grainger), 1900–01^[785]
• "Train My Woman's On, The" (Neil Merritt) by Hank Snow^[70]
• "Train of Love", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers:
  Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil Young); the Pogues; Willie Hutch; Bob Dylan^[786]
• "Train of Thought", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: (Pal Waaktaar) by a-ha, (Alan O'Day) by Cher^[86]
• "Train on the Island" (Traditional) by
  Tao Seeger, Peter Stampfel and the Ether Frolic Mob, Stephen Wade^[787]
• "Train Ride in G" by Mason Williams^[788]
• "Train Round the Bend" (Lou Reed) by the Velvet Underground^[789][15]
• "Train Running Low on Soul Coal" (Andy Partridge) by XTC^[790]
• "Train Song", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers:
  Smoke (Smoke); Smokie (Alan Silson); Brent Spiner and Maude Maggart (Brent Spiner, Maude Maggart); Summer Hymns (Zach Gresham); Andy Summers (Andy Summers); Wendy Waldman (Wendy Waldman)^[791]
• "Train Song, The" (Nick Cave) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds^[792]
• "Train Song Medley" by the Persuasions^[793]
• "Train That Carried My Girl from Town, The" by Roscoe Holcomb,^[794] Frank Hutchison,^[157] Doc Watson,^[356]
• "Train That Never Runs, A" (Bill Rice, Jerry Foster) by Bobby Bare
• "Train Time at Pun'kin Centre" by Cal Stewart and American Quartet, 1919^[795]
• "Train Time Blues" (Cecil Gant) by Roy Brown, Cecil Gant, Amos Milburn; additional song with this title, artist followed by composer: Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker)^[796]
• "Train to Chicago" Mike Doughty
• "Train to Nowhere" (Dave Burgess) by the Champs
• "Train to Nowhere" (Kim Simmonds, Chris Youlden) by Savoy Brown^[797]
• "Train to Sao Paulo" from Powaqqatsi by Philip Glass
• "Train, Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Blackfoot (Shorty Medlocke),^[798][130] Tak Matsumoto Group (Tak Matsumoto)
• "Train Was Saved, The" (Charles Graham), published 1891^[190][799]
• "Train Whistle Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) by
  Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Doc and Richard Watson, Robin and Linda Williams;^[132] additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Amos Milburn (Amos Milburn);^[800] Sonny Terry (Sonny Terry)^[801]
• "Train with the Rhumba Beat" (Johnny Horton) by Johnny Horton,^[802] Rusty Draper
• "Train Wreck" (James Arthur) by James Arthur^[803][160]
• "Trains"" (Ian Anderson, Peter-John Vettese) by Ian Anderson
• "Trains" (Mohr) by Reginald Gardiner^[804]
• "Trains" (Steven Wilson) by Porcupine Tree
• "Trains and Boats and Planes" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) by Dionne Warwick,^[86] Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
• "Trains of Waterloo, The" (Les Barker) by Les Barker and Mrs. Ackroyd Band with June Tabor^[805]
• "Trains Make Me Lonesome" (Marty Haggard) by George Strait
• "Trains to Brazil" (Fyfe Dangerfield) by Guillemots^[806]
• "Traintime" (Jack Bruce) by Cream^[807]
• "Trainwreck" (Tim Anderson, Jillian Banks, Aron Forbes, Dacoury Natche, Jesse Rogg) by Banks^[808][160]
• "Trainwreck of Emotion" (Alan Rhody, Jon Vezner) by Del McCoury, Lorrie Morgan^[809]
• "Tramp, The" (Traditional, c. 1873–1893) by Vernon Dalhart (1926), Sam and Kirk McGee (1927)^[83]
• "Trams of Old London" by Robyn Hitchcock^[393]
• "Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk^[810]
• "Transylvania Terror Train" (Jesse Dayton) by Captain Clegg and the Night Creatures^[811]
• "Trem das Onze" by (Adoniran Barbosa).
• "Tren al Sur" by Los Prisioneros^[812]
• "
  Frații Advahov^[813]
• "Trolley Song, The" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane), from Meet Me in St. Louis, by Herb Alpert, Tony Bennett, the Brook Brothers, Dave Brubeck, Carol Burnett, Frankie Carle and His Orchestra, Betty Carter, Claiborne Cary, Barbara Cook, Paul Desmond, Michael Feinstein, Judy Garland, Tubby Hayes, the Hi-Lo's, Stacey Kent, Donald Lambert, Melba Liston, Julie London, Marilyn Maxwell, Mantovani, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Jo Stafford, Kay Starr, Kay Thompson, Sarah Vaughan^[814]
• "
  Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Bennie Wallace, Dinah Washington, Muddy Waters, Ben Webster, Georgia White, Blind Connie Williams, Jimmy Witherspoon^{[31][86][815]}
• "True and Trembling Brakeman, The" by Cliff Carlisle^[816][76]
• "Trusty Lariet, The (Cowboy Fireman)" (Harry McClintock) by Harry McClintock^[817]
• "Tucson Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[818][15]
• "
  Hank Williams, Jr.^[819]
• "Tulsa Queen" (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell) by Emmylou Harris^[820]
• "Turbo" (Eldon Rathburn) by Atlantic Brass Quintet^[232]
• "Two Tickets to Georgia" (
  J. Fred Coots, Joe Young) by Ben Pollack
• "Two Trains" (Lowell George) by Lowell George, Nicolette Larson, Claudia Lennear, Little Feat
• "Two Trains" by Yo La Tengo
• "Two Trains Running" (
  George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Dave Van Ronk, Joe Louis Walker^[821][15]
• "Two Winding Rails" by Sierra Hull

U

• "Under Your Thumb" (Kevin Godley, Lol Creme) by Godley & Creme^[822]
• "Underground Rail Car", also titled "Song of the Fugitive", (George N. Allen),^[823] written and published 1854^[824]
• "U.S. Highball" by Harry Partch

V

• "Villa-Lobos / Honegger / Glass Train" from "Genre Implosions No. 3", by Mark Alburger
• "Virginian Strike of '23" (Roy Harvey, Earl Shirkey, 1929) by Roy Harvey, Earl Shirkey, Mike Seeger^[825]

W

• "
  the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton, Boots Randolph, Jerry Reed, Don Reno, Jean Ritchie, Leon Russell, the Secret Sisters, Pete Seeger, Hank Snow, Kay Starr, Kay Starr, Billy Strange, Merle Travis, Ernest Tubb, Townes Van Zandt, the Ventures, Doc Watson, Bob Weir, Lawrence Welk, Hank Williams, Mac Wiseman, the Wood Brothers, Glenn Yarbrough, Dan Zanes^[827]
• "Waitin' for the Train to Come In" (Sunny Skylar, Martin Block) by Harry James and Kitty Kallen,^[86] Helen Forrest, Buddy Johnson, Peggy Lee, Johnny Long, Louis Prima
• "Waiting for a Train" by Flash and the Pan
• "
  Jimmie Rodgers, Boz Scaggs, John Sebastian, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb^[86][313]
• "Waiting for the End of the World" (Elvis Costello) by Elvis Costello^[828]
• "Waiting on the '103'" by Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks
• "Walkin' Down the Line" (Bob Dylan) by the Country Gentlemen,^[829] Bob Dylan
• "Watchman's Gone, The" (Gordon Lightfoot) by Gordon Lightfoot
• "Wave the Flag and Stop the Train" (Roy Wood) by the Move^[830]
• "Way Out in Idaho" (
  Traditional) by Rosalie Sorrels, Blaine Stubblefield^[831][356]
• "Way Out There" (
  the Sons of the Pioneers
• "Weathered Old Caboose Behind the Train, The" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake^[832]
• "Western Hobo, The" (
  the Carter Family^[151]
• "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" (Michael Martin Murphey and
  Owen Castleman) by the Monkees, Michael Martin Murphey^[833]
• "What Ever Happened to the Caboose?" by the Altar Billies, written by Michael W Stand (ASCAP),[834]
• "When My Train Pulls In" by Gary Clark Jr.
• "When the Golden Train Comes Down" (
  the Sons of the Pioneers^[835]
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" (Irving Berlin), published 1912,^[836] by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan (1912).^[837] Performed in films by the following artists: Alice Faye, Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1938; Fred Astaire and Judy Garland, Easter Parade, 1948; Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor, There's No Business Like Show Business, 1954^[293]
• "When the Train Comes Along" by Henry Thomas^[152]
• "Whiskey Train" by Procol Harum
• "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" (Tom Waits) by Tom Waits^[838]
• "White Man Singin' the Blues" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[135]
• "Whitewash Station Blues" (
  Jab Jones, Will Shade) by Memphis Jug Band (1928)^[839]
• "Will-o-the-wisp" by Pet Shop Boys
• "Woman on a Train" by the Fixx (1984)^[840]
• "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" (Rickie Lee Jones, David Kalish) by Rickie Lee Jones^[841]
• "
  Flatt & Scruggs, Blind Boy Fuller, Woody Guthrie, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Jim & Jesse, George Jones, Tom Jones, the Kingston Trio, Sleepy LaBeef, Laurie Lewis, Charlie Louvin, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Van Morrison, Elliott Murphy, New Lost City Ramblers, Osborne Brothers, Don Reno, Peggy and Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, the Seekers, Ralph Stanley, Stray Cats, Tampa Red, Mel Tillis, Ben Vaughn, Big Joe Williams, Johnny Williams^[842][843]
• "Wreck between New Hope and Gethsemane" by Doc Hopkins[844]
• "Wreck of the 1256, The" (Carson Robison), also known as "Train 1256", by Vernon Dalhart (1925), Curly Fox^{[845][846][847]}
• "Wreck of the 1262", (Fred Tait-Douglas, Carson Robison), also known as "The Freight Wreck at Altoona", by Vernon Dalhart (1926), Curly Fox, Riley Puckett (1937), Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, Doc and Merle Watson^{[848][849][850][851]}
• "Wreck of the C & O Number Five, The" (lyrics Cleburne C. Meeks, 1926; music
  Carson J. Robison, 1927) by Vernon Dalhart, Pick Temple, Mac Wiseman^[852]
• "Wreck of the G & SI" by Happy Bud Harrison[844]
• "Wreck of the L & N" (Traditional, related to "Wreck on the C & O") by Phipps Family^[260]
• "Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (Cleburn C. Meeks, Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart^[844]
• "Wreck of the Number Nine, The" (Carson Robison, 1927) by Vernon Dalhart and Frank Luther, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter, Hank Snow, Rosalie Sorrels, Mark Spoelstra, Ernest Stoneman, Doc Watson^{[853][854][2][684]}
• "Wreck of the Old 49" (Shel Silverstein) by
  Uncle Shelby
• "
  Flatt & Scruggs,^[861] G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter,^[862] Woody Guthrie,^[856] Frank Hutchison,^[157] George Reneau,^[855] Reno and Smiley,^[162]Pete Seeger,^[863] Kate Smith,^[864] Hank Snow,^[70][86] Muggsy Spanier,^[225] Billy Strange,^[865] Ernest Thompson^[866]
• "Wreck of the Royal Palm Express, The" (Andrew Jenkins) by Vernon Dalhart,^[867] Joe Glazer,^[155] Andrew Jenkins, Frank Luther^[2]
• "Wreck of the Shenandoah" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart with Carson Robison and Lou Raderman (1925)^[868]
• "The Wreck of the Virginian Train" by John Hutchens^[86]
• "Wreck of the Virginian Number 3, The" (Blind Alfred Reed, 1927) by Roy Harvey with Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, Blind Alfred Reed^{[869][870][871][872]}
• "Wreck on the C & O, The" (Unknown), basis for "Engine 143" and "F.F.V.", earliest printing 1913, by John Allison, George Reneau and Gene Austin (1924), Ernest Stoneman (1925)^[260]

Y

• "
  Yellow Dog Rag" (W. C. Handy), published 1914,^[873] by Johnny Maddox^[874]
• "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)" by Love and Rockets
• "You Never Even Called Me by My Name" by Steve Goodman and John Prine
• "Your Good Man Caught the Train and Gone" by Mississippi Sheiks^[875]

Z

• "Zenevonat" by
  Lokomotiv GT^[876]
• "Zion Train" by Bob Marley and the Wailers^[15]
• "Zoo Station" by U2^[288][15]

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