I was just joking with a friend that I have no idea how he took so long to be diagnosed with autism when he has a playlist dedicated to songs about trains; he made this playlist after randomly having 3 songs about trains come on in a row when he put his music on shuffle, and decided to start collecting them in a playlist. There aren’t too many on there at the moment, and he’d like to collect more, if anyone has any suggestions.
I will share the resulting playlist on here afterwards as either an edit to this post, or a comment reply. If you want to be pinged about this, let me know in your comment, and I’ll make sure you receive a link to the playlist.
Bonus question: if you’re autistic, what are your opinions on trains? I’m personally ambivalent about trains, but they also feel like they’re my culture, because of how many of my fellow autistic nerds like trains.
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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
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
List of train songs - Wikipedia
For all your train song needs 🚂 🚃 🚆 🚄 🚅 🚉 🛤️
Just a small town girl, living in a loooonely world, She took the midnight train, going an-yyyy-where
I haven’t seen mention of Ozzy’s maybe biggest hit, Crazy Train
ALL ABOOOAAARRRDD! HAHAHA!
Rest in power, Legend Of Darkness.
I had to scroll way to far to find this.
- 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
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
Woke snowflake nonsense. Kraftwerk need to stop brainwashing our kids.
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.
Train Underwater - Bright Eyes New Virginia Creeper - Old Crow Medicine Show Let the Train Blow the Whistle - Johnny Cash
Am undiagnosed but definitely autistic. My opinion on trains is they used to scare the shit out of me when I was a child. Coal trains are all over the place where I live, and I was right up next to them while they were making terrifying loud noises. I think that ruined any interest I might have had from a distance. Now as an adult, I am very interested in the engineering and workings of trains, but not much more than the engineering and workings of all other complex engineered systems. But I’m more interested in buildings and architecture than mechanical engineering.
How’s this one been missed?
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+)
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.
I have one German A Cappella song and one German Volkslied from the 1800s.
