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I haven't seen mention of Ozzy's maybe biggest hit, Crazy Train

Train Kept a Rollin by Aerosmith

Also,

Okaihau Express by Peter Cape (other Jet Lag fans in here?)

So many Johnny Cash songs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/12321351-Johnny-Cash-And-The-Tennessee-Two-Get-Rhythm-Story-Songs-Of-The-Trains-And-Rivers

Special Streamline by Bukka White.

Blue Railroad Train by Doc Watson

Choo Choo Train by the Box Tops

Downbound Train by Chuck Berry

Take the A Train by Esquivel

There are SO many songs about trains.

L & N Special by Christine Kittrell

Not sure it’s it’s been mentioned, but the corny and old school answer is Chattanooga Choo Choo

Til it was also the first gold selling record (1 million+)

Just a small town girl, living in a loooonely world, She took the midnight train, going an-yyyy-where

Can't believe that no one has mentioned this one yet...

Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans

Quad City DJs - C’mon N’ Ride It

No Use for a Name - Don’t Miss the Train

Tom Waits (original), Rod Stewart/Patty Smyth/Bob Seger - Downtown Train

Journey - Don’t Stop Belivin’

John Fogerty - Train of Fools

Guns ‘N Roses “Night Train” (though technically not about a locomotive but getting blitzed on rotgut)

I’d never contemplated how many songs reference trains.

List of train songs - Wikipedia

For all your train song needs 🚂 🚃 🚆 🚄 🚅 🚉 🛤️

Didn't see this here yet (though maybe I missed it)

Train Song - Vashti Bunyan

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U_cZyavt06U

Electric Callboy - teckno train

Casey Jones - The Grateful Dead

https://youtu.be/6QuQ-yVDQ54

Admittedly, it's train tangential

• Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues (live from San Quentin version!)
• Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
• Half Man Half Biscuit - Time Flies By When You're The Driver Of A Train

Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees

A few you might not have heard

Two feet ahead of the train - Michael McNevin

And I know it's a Christian song but Josh Turner Long Black Train is so good.

Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer - Hey Conductor

How's this one been missed?

I LIKE TRAINS - asdfmovie

Peace Train by Cat Stevens

Love Train O‘Jays

Last Train to London by ELO

Chattanooga Choo Choo Glen Miller/ Andrews Sisters

Take The A Train Duke Ellington

Midnight Train to Georgia Gladys and Pips

Off the top of my head, the only real "train" focused song i know is Murdertrain a Comin' by Dethklok.

Toto Cutugno - Il treno va

Not sure how well it counts for being about trains, but the first one that leapt to mind for me was Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath

It's at least got a lot of train allegory.

Trains by porcupine tree !!!!

Passage to Bangkok - Rush

Bob Dylan “It Takes A Lot To laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry” is about riding a mail train and is a great song :)

https://youtu.be/SN1ACh8lzHg

What about the song Trains by Porcupine Tree?

Train, Train by Blackfoot is kinda awesome.

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

I don't see it in the comments so hopefully not a repost. King gizzard and the lizard wizard - road train It's so good.

I have one German A Cappella song and one German Volkslied from the 1800s.

Wise Guys - Deutsche Bahn

Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne (Volkslied)

The most famouse song about DB by wise guys

I've got 16 songs about / relating to trains, but no idea how to export playlists from Poweramp:

• The Kleptones/24 Hours (Disc 1)/04 0835 Kick The Bus, Kick The Train.mp3.mp3
• 青春歌年鑑 90年代総集編 [Disc 1]/1-05 Choo Choo TRAIN.m4a
• Gorillaz/G Sides/07 Ghost Train.m4a
• Electric Light Orchestra/Strange Magic - The Best of Electric Light Orchestra/2-08 Last Train to London.m4a
• The Rolling Stone Women In Rock Collection [Disc 2]/2-02 Midnight Train To Georgia.mp3
• Back to the Future (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)/08 Night Train (feat. The Starlighte.m4a
• The Guess Who/The Guess Who_ Anthology/1-20 Pain Train.m4a
• Mama Africa/04 Stop That Train.m4a
• Bob Marley & The Wailers/The Complete Wailers 1967-1972 Part 1 [Disc 2]/2-11 This Train (Alternate).m4a
• Tom Waits/Big Time/12 Train Song [Live].m4a
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/01 Train to Lamy Suite (pts 1-3).mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/11 Train to Lamy pt 3 (reprise).mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/05 Train to Lamy pt 4.mp3
• The California Guitar Trio/Invitation/07 Train to Lamy pt 5.mp3
• 8bit Project/SPICY INNOVATOR VS SUPERIOR MARIONETTE/04 ただ…逢いたくて - Together - Choo Choo T.m4a
• Gordon Lightfoot/Sunday Concert/11 Canadian Railroad Trilogy.mp3

And then one that isn't really about trains, but very good:

• The Clash/London Calling/19 Train In Vain.m4a

Honorable mentions (heard but don't own):

• City of New Orleans / John Denver version
• Take the A Train / Duke Ellington w. Ella Fitzgerald
• Rock Island Line / Stan Freberg version

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

Runaway Train - Soul Asylum

Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash

Does Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” count? Opens with a verse about taking trains!

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.

Freight train rolling on by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, and a bunch of other blues songs are related to trains, built around sounds and rhythms the trains make, or around journeying on trains.

One of my favorite artists, Tim Barry, does (or maybe did) some train hopping so some of his songs are about his experience riding in boxcars and that's reflected in his album art. A few of his that come to mind are: Driver Pull Chirch of Level Track Steel Road

But for an actual song about a train, I didn't see "Wabash Cannonball" yet. You can make a playlist from different Artists renditions of this song. Roy Acuff's take on it is the one that I associate with the song but the Limeliters is probably my favorite.

Levellers - Dog Train

Half Man Half Biscuit - Time Flies By ( When You're The Driver of a Train)

This album is about actual train wrecks, I believe.

The Ghost of Hope by The Residents

Train in the Distance by Paul Simon

I never dream about trains - Cass McCombs (Deezer)

Peace Train - Cat Stevens (Deezer)

Train In The Rain (Album Version) - Bruce Cockburn (accoustic) (Deezer)

princess of the night by Saxon (I think) it's my favorite one

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