List of train songs

"The Carrollton March, 1828"
Sheet music of the first-known train song, written for the ground-breaking of the first passenger railway in the U.S.[1]
Song
Published	July 1, 1828
Form	March
Composer	Arthur Clifton
Language	English

A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads. Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in all major musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock 'n roll, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde. While the prominence of railroads has faded in recent decades, the train endures as a common image in popular song.^[2][3]

The earliest known train songs date to two years before the first public railway began operating in the United States. "The Carrollton March", copyrighted July 1, 1828, was composed by Arthur Clifton to commemorate the groundbreaking of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Another song written for the occasion, "Rail Road March" by Charles Meineke, was copyrighted two days after Clifton's, one day before the July 4 ceremonies. The number of songs that have appeared since then is impossible to determine, not only because of the difficulties in documenting the songs but also in defining the genre.^[1]

Following is a list of about 1,000 songs by artists world-wide, alphabetized by song title. Most have appeared on commercially released albums and singles and are notable for either their composers, the musicians who performed them, or their place in the history of the form. Besides recorded works, the list includes songs that preceded the first wax cylinder records of the late 1800s and were published as either broadsides or sheet music.

For a song to be included in the list, trains or related vehicles such as trolleys and subways must be prominently featured in the lyrics or with instrumentals, suggested by the sounds and rhythms. Songs whose titles or lyrics refer to trains only in passing, such as Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire", Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" and Hank Williams's "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", are not included.

0–9

• "2:10 Train" (Tom Campbell/Linda Albertano) by Chesapeake, The Fenians, Jimmy Gaudreau & Moondi Klein, Steve Gillette, Carolyn Hester, Taj Mahal, Rising Sons, Linda Ronstadt & Stone Poneys^[4]
• "2:15" (John Philip Sousa), copyright 1889^[5]
• "2:19" (Tom Waits, Kathleen Brennan) by Tom Waits^[6]
• "2:19 Blues (Mamie's Blues)" (Mamie Desdunes) by Louis Armstrong, Jeff Barnhart, Acker Bilk, Canadian Brass, Ken Colyer, Karen Dalton, Art Hodes, 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 & Rolf Cahn^[7][8]
• "219 Train" (Harvey Fuqua) by The Moonglows^[9]
• "3:10 To Yuma" (George Dunning, Ned Washington) by Sandy Denny^[10]
• "30 Miles of Railroad Track" (Burt Bacharach, Bob Hilliard) by Hammond Brothers^[11]
• "49 Tons" (Fred Eaglesmith) by Fred Eaglesmith^[12]
• "5.15 (The Angels have Gone)" (David Bowie) by David Bowie^[13]
• "5:15" (Chris Isaak) by Chris Isaak^[14]
• "5:15" (Pete Townshend) by The Who, from Quadrophenia, 1973^[15]
• "500 Miles" (Hedy West)^[16] by Bill Anderson, Chet Atkins, Hoyt Axton, Bad Astronaut, Bobby Bare, Eric Bibb, Leon Bibb, Bob the Builder, The Brothers Four, Glen Campbell, Rosanne Cash, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Celtic Thunder, The Country Gentlemen, Jackie DeShannon, Lonnie Donegan, John Duffey, Cliff Eberhardt, Percy Faith, Jimmy Gilmer, The Hooters, The Innocence Mission, The Journeymen, The Kingston Trio, Los Mustang, Laura Love, Arthur Lyman, Waldemar Matuška, Reba McEntire, Chad Mitchell Trio, Bill Perry, Peter & Gordon, Peter, Paul & Mary, Elvis Presley, Zé Renato & Cláudio Nucci, Johnny Rivers, Alexander Rybak, The Seekers, The Seldom Scene, Judee Sill, Terrance Simien, Joe Simon, Sonny & Cher, Billy Strange, The Tokens, Mary Travers, McCoy Tyner & Marc Ribot, Unit 4 + 2, Johnny Ventura, Gene Vincent, Jimmy Vivino, Hedy West, Roger Whittaker, Mike Wilhelm, Foy Willing & Riders of the Purple Sage, Peter Yarrow^[17][18]
• "900 Miles" (Traditional)^[19] by Bethany & Rufus, Fiddlin' John Carson, Doris Day, Barbara Dane, Dion, Bob Dylan, The Easy Riders, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, John Fahey, Adam Faith, Terry Gilkyson, Woody Guthrie, Richie Havens, Cisco Houston, Bert Jansch & John Renbourn, Roger McGuinn, The New Christy Minstrels, Nina & Frederik, Odetta, Esther Ofarim, Reptile Palace Orchestra, Pete Seeger & Mike Seeger, Show of Hands, Red Smiley, Town Criers, The Weavers, Wally Whyton, Glenn Yarbrough^[20][21]

A

• "Abalinga Mail" by Slim Dusty^[22]
• "Across the Track Blues" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington^[23]
• "Ain't No Brakeman" (Fontaine Brown) by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers,^[24] Coco Montoya^[25]
• "Alabama Bound", see "I'm Alabama Bound"
• "Algoma Central No. 69" by Stompin' Tom Connors^[26]
• "All Aboard" (Muddy Waters) by Chuck Berry,^[27] Terry Garland,^[28] Muddy Waters.^[29] Other songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Nat King Cole (Nat King Cole),^[30] The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi (Archie Brownlee),^[31] The Kinks (Ray Davies),^[32] Wynton Marsalis (Wynton Marsalis),^[33] Del McCoury (Bradley Rodgers, Charley Stefl, Eugene P. Ellsworth),^[34] Allison Moorer (Allison Moorer, Doyle Lee Primm),^[35] Jimmy Mundy (Jimmy Mundy),^[36] Sly & Robbie (Warrick Lyn)^[37]
• "All Aboard for Dreamland" (Andrew B. Sterling, Gussie L. Davis), sheet music published 1904^[38]
• "All Down the Line" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) by The Rolling Stones^[39]
• "All Night Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: The Allman Brothers Band (Greg Allman, Warren Haynes, Chuck Leavell),^[40] New Grass Revival (Steven Briner, Sam Bush),^[41] Percy Sledge (unlisted)^[42]
• "All the Way Home" (David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel) by Spinal Tap^[43]
• "Always a Train in My Dreams" (Steve Gillette, Charles John Quarto) by Steve Gillette
• "Amtrak (Ain't Coming Back)" (Billy Joe Shaver) by Billy Joe Shaver^[44]
• "Amtrak Blues" (Alberta Hunter) by Alberta Hunter^[45]
• "Amtrak Crescent" (Scott Miller) by Scott Miller^[46]
• "Amtrak Is for Lovers" (Houston Calls) by Houston Calls^[47]
• "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^[48]
• "Another Journey by Train" (Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley, Robert Smith, Lol Tolhurst) by The Cure^[49]
• "Another Town, Another Train" (Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus) by ABBA^[50]
• "Another Train" (Pete Morton) by Artisan, Sally Barker, Pete Morton, The Poozies. Other songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Will Kimbrough (Gwil Owen, Will Kimbrough); Ian McCulloch (Ian McCulloch)^[51]
• "Another Train Coming" (Ronald White, William "Mickey" Stevenson) by Kim Weston^[52]
• "Are Ye Right There, Michael" (Percy French) by Brendan O'Dowda,^[53] Sean Ryan^[54]
• "Are You Lonely for Me" (Bert Berns) by Hank Ballard,^[55] Commitments,^[56] Grateful Dead,^[57] Al Green,^[58] Chuck Jackson,^[59] Steve Marriott,^[60] Otis Redding & Carla Thomas,^[61] Freddie Scott^[62]
• "Arrival Platform Humlet" (Percy Grainger) by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,^[63] Paul Coletti & Leslie Howard^[64]
• "Asleep at the Switch" (Charles Shackford), published 1897,^[65] by Ernest Stoneman^[66]
• "Asleep on the Subway" (Sxip Shirey) by Sxip Shirey^[67]
• "At the Sound of the Signal Bell" (Will A. Heelan, Max Dreyfus), sheet music published 1898^[68]
• "At the Station" (Joe Vitale, Joe Walsh) by Joe Walsh^[69]
• "Atlanta Special, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[70]
• "Atlantic Coastal Line, The" (Fred Burch, Mel Tillis) by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs,^[71] Burl Ives,^[72] Charley Pride,^[73] Hank Snow^[74]
• "Auctioneer (Another Engine)" (Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Michael Stipe) by R.E.M.^[75]
• "Autorail" (Medoune Diallo) by Orchestra Baobab^[76]

B

• "′B′ Movie Box Car Blues" (Delbert McClinton) by Delbert McClinton^[77]
• "B & O Blues", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Bumble Bee Slim (Amos Easton),^[78] Big Joe Turner (Big Joe Turner)^[79]
• "B & O Blues, No. 2" (Gary Atkinson, Blind Willie McTell) by Blind Willie McTell^[80]
• "Baby Likes to Rock It" (Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond) by The Tractors^[81]
• "Back on the Train" (Tom Marshall) by Phish,^[82] Toots and the Maytals^[83]
• "Back Up Train" (James, Rodgers) by Al Green^[84]
• "Bad Luck Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[85]
• "Ballad of Casey McPhee" by Jerry Nelson and Cookie Monster (Frank Oz)
• "Ballad of John Henry" (see "John Henry") by Jimmy Dean
• "Banjoreno" by Dixieland Jug Blowers^[86]
• "Beat It on Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) by Jesse Fuller, The Grateful Dead, Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions^[87]
• "Because He Was Only a Tramp" (Traditional), related to "The Tramp", published c. 1875–1880,^[88] by Wyzee Hamilton^[89]
• "Bellerin' Plain" (Don Van Vliet) by Captain Beefheart^[90]
• "Ben Dewberry's Final Run" (Andrew Jenkins, 1927)^[91] by Johnny Cash, Jerry Douglas, Steve Forbert, Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow^[92]
• "Betting on Trains" (Dan Messe) by Hem
• "Between Trains", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Auburn Lull (Auburn Lull),^[93] Robbie Robertson (Robbie Robertson)^[94]
• "Big Bear Train" (Jimmy Yancey) by Jimmy Yancey^[95][96]
• "Big Black Train" (George Sherry) by Flatt & Scruggs^[97]
• "Big City Train" (Tom Dumont, Tony Kanal, Eric Stefani, Gwen Stefani) by No Doubt^[98]
• "Big Freight Train Carry Me Home" (Lecil Martin) by Boxcar Willie
• "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis) by Cannon's Jug Stompers (1928),^[99] Grateful Dead
• "Big Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Black Country Communion (Glenn Hughes);^[100] Booker T. & the MG's,^[101] Steve Marriott,^[102] Conway Twitty (Al Jackson, Jr., Booker T. Jones, Lewis Steinberg, Steve Cropper);^[103] Brave Old World (Alan Bern, Traditional);^[104] Michael Pickett (Shawn Kellerman);^[105] Mike Watt (Tony Kinman);^[106] David Lee Roth (Joey Hunting, Terry Kilgore, David Lee Roth, Preston Sturges)^[107]
• "Big Train (from Memphis)" (John Fogerty) by John Fogerty^[108]
• "Big Wheels" (Clovis Yarnall) by Hank Snow^[74]
• "Bill Groggin's Goat" (Traditional) by Sara Hickman^[109]
• "Bill Mason" (Copyrighted by Roy Harvey, from poem by Bret Harte) by Roy Harvey & the North Carolina Ramblers (1927), Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers (1929)^[110]
• "Billy Richardson's Last Ride" (Carson Robison, Cleburne C. Meeks) by Vernon Dalhart (1926)^[111][112]
• "Black Cowboys" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[113]
• "Black Girl" (variation of "The Longest Train"/"In the Pines")^[114] by Long John Baldry,^[115] Lonnie Donegan,^[116] Marianne Faithfull,^[117] Clifford Jordan,^[118] Journeymen,^[119] Lead Belly,^[114] Nirvana ("Where Did You Sleep Last Night?"),^[120] Pete Seeger,^[121] Josh White^[122]
• "Black Train" (Jeffrey Lee Pierce) by The Gun Club^[123]
• "Black Train Blues, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[124]
• "Black Train Song" (The Doors, Junior Parker, Sam Phillips) by The Doors^[125]
• "Blow That Lonesome Whistle, Casey" (Al Dexter) by Al Dexter^[126]
• "Blow Yo' Whistle, Freight Train" (Alton & Rabon Delmore)^[127] by The Delmore Brothers,^[128] Happy & Artie Traum^[129]
• "Blue Railroad Train" (Alton Delmore) by The Delmore Brothers, Hot Tuna, Jorma Kaukonen, Geoff & Maria Muldaur, The Tony Rice Unit, Marty Stuart, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Doc & Merle Watson^[130] Additional song with this title written and recorded by Danny Schmidt.^[131]
• "Blue Smoke" (Dolly Parton) by Dolly Parton^[132] 2014
• "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 & Tripping Daisy); Kenny Rogers (Pat Donohue); Billy Hancock (Billy Hancock); Antônio Carlos Jobim (Antônio Carlos Jobim, Lô Borges & Ronaldo Bastos); Kevin Johnson (Kevin Johnson); Cibo Matto (Cibo Matto); Jimmy Page & Robert Plant (Charlie Jones, Jimmy Page, Michael K. Lee & Robert Plant); Maura O'Connell, Linda Ronstadt-Emmylou Harris-Dolly Parton (Jennifer Kimball & Tom Kimmel); Johnny Cash, The Nashville Bluegrass Band, Marty Stuart (Billy Smith); Asian Kung-Fu Generation (Burū Torein)^[133]
• "Blue Train (of the Heartbreak Line)" (John D. Loudermilk) by Pat Boone, Bjøro Håland, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver,^[134] John D. Loudermilk^[135]
• "Blue Water Line" (Dora Graf, Martin Seligson) by The Brothers Four, Kingston Trio
• "Blue Yodel No. 7" (Jimmie Rodgers, George Vaughn) by Bill Monroe, Jimmie Rodgers
• "Blues for Dixie" (O.W. Mayo) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "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, Julie London, Jimmie Lunceford, Katie Melua, Johnny Mercer, Artie Shaw, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Kate Smith, Jo Stafford, Big Joe Turner^[137]
• "Boomer's Story" (Carson Robison), see "The Railroad Boomer"
• "Bone Against Steel" by 38 Special
• "Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train" (Richard Vance) by Mabel Scott^[138]
• "Born on a Train" by The Magnetic Fields
• "Bound for Glory", see "This Train Is Bound for Glory"
• "Bound for Hell" (David J) by Love and Rockets,^[139]
• "Boxcar Blues" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie,^[140] Maggie Jones^[141]
• "Boxcar Willie" (Lecil Martin) by Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie
• "Boxcar's My Home" (Lloene Martin) by Boxcar Willie^[142]
• "Boxcars" (Butch Hancock) by Joe Ely, Rosie Flores^[143]
• "Brakeman's Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Johnny Cash,^[144] Lefty Frizzell,^[145] Bill Monroe,^[146] Jimmie Rodgers,^[147] Hank Snow^[148]
• "Brave Engineer, The", three songs with this title: (Fred E. Reynolds), sheet music published 1891;^[149] Roy Harvey & North Carolina Ramblers (Composer unknown, "The Wreck on the C & O" set to tune of "The Wreck of the Old 97"), 1926;^[150][151] Cisco Houston (Cisco Houston), 1953^[152][153]
• "Breakdown" (Dan Nakamura, Jack Johnson, Paul Huston) by Jack Johnson
• "Bridal Train" (The Waifs) by The Waifs^[154]
• "Bringin' in the Georgia Mail" (Fred Rose) by Norman Blake, Boothill Foot Tappers, Sam Bush, Floyd Cramer, Flatt & Scruggs, Don Gibson, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, Charlie Monroe, Reno & Smiley, Curly Seckler & The Nashville Grass, Mac Wiseman^[155]
• "Broke Down Engine" (Blind Willie McTell) by Spencer Bohren, Peter Case, Cephas & Wiggins, Tony McPhee, Bob Dylan, Paul Geremia, John Hammond, Jr., Ernie Hawkins, Colin Linden, Blind Willie McTell, Buddy Moss, Dave "Snaker" Ray, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Martin Simpson, Johnny Winter^[156]
• "Broken Down Tramp, The" (A. P. Carter, related to "The Tramp") by The Carter Family (1937)^[88][157]
• "Broken Train" (Beck) by Beck
• "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" by John Prine
• "Buddy Better Get on Down the Line" (Jane Bowers, Dave Guard) by The Kingston Trio
• "Bull Doze Blues" (Henry Thomas) by Henry Thomas^[158]
• "Bummin Around" (Peter Graves) by Boxcar Willie^[140]
• "Bullet Train", separate songs: Wynton Marsalis, Judas Priest, Lee Ritenour, Art Taylor, The Ventures, The Ernie Watts Quartet
• "Bummin' an Old Freight Train" by Lester Flatt & The Nashville Grass
• "Burma Train" (Martin Denny) by Martin Denny^[159]
• "BW Railroad Blues" (Townes Van Zandt) by Townes Van Zandt^[160]
• "Bye, Bye Black Smoke Choo Choo" (Don Reno, Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith) by Joe Glazer, The New Lost City Ramblers^[161]

C

• "C & O Blues" by Blind Joe Taggart^[162]
• "C & O Excursion" by Frank Hutchison^[163]
• "C & O Whistle by Fruit Jar Guzzlers^[164]
• "Ca Roule" by CANO
• "Caballito de Metal" Chilean folk song
• "California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4)" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Gene Autry, Lefty Frizzell, Woody Guthrie, Merle Haggard, Bill Monroe, Tim O'Brien, Webb Pierce, Jimmie Rodgers, The Seldom Scene, Doc & Merle Watson
• "California Dream Express" by Peter, Sue & Marc^[165]
• "California Zephyr", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Duster Bennett & B.B. King (Duster Bennett); Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard (Jack Kerouac, Jay Farrar); Larry Sparks, Hank Williams (Hank Williams); Dolly Varden (Steve Dawson)^[166]
• "Calling Trains" (Traditional)^[2] by Utah Phillips^[167]
• "Can't Let Go" (Randy Weeks) by Shemekia Copeland,^[168] Lucinda Williams^[169]
• "Can't You See" (Toy Caldwell) by Black Stone Cherry, Waylon Jennings, The Minglewood Band, Poison, The Marshall Tucker Band, Hank Williams, Jr.
• "Canadian Pacific" (Ray Griff)^[170] by George Hamilton IV, Gordon Lightfoot, Hank Snow^[170]
• "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" (Gordon Lightfoot) by Gordon Lightfoot^[171]
• "Cannonball Blues" (Traditional, also recorded as "Cannonball")^[172] by The Carter Family,^[157] June Carter Cash, John Cohen, The Dillards, Jerry Douglas & Peter Rowan, Flatt & Scruggs, Frank Hutchison, Grandpa Jones, Furry Lewis, Jelly Roll Morton, Utah Phillips, The Seldom Scene^[173][174]
• "Carolina Blues" (Chan Kinchla, John Popper) by Blues Traveler^[175]
• "Carrollton March, The" (Arthur Clifton), first US train song, copyrighted July 1, 1828^[1]
• "Casey Jones" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) by Grateful Dead, Wailing Souls, Warren Zevon & David Lindley
• "Casey Jones" (copyrighted by Eddie Newton, T. Lawrence Seibert, attributed to Wallace Saunders) by Sidney Bechet, Fiddlin' John Carson, Johnny Cash, Vernon Dalhart,^[176] Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Mississippi John Hurt, "Spider John" Koerner, Furry Lewis, The New Christy Minstrels, The Sons of the Pioneers, Spike Jones, Tex Ritter, Tom Russell, Pete Seeger
• "Casey Jones, the Union Scab" by Almanac Singers, Joe Glazer, Joe Hill, Utah Phillips, Pete Seeger
• "Casey Junior" from the Dumbo soundtrack
• "Casey's Last Ride" (Kris Kristofferson) by Kris Kristofferson, John Denver, Waylon Jennings, Euson, Peter Rowan, Johnny Cash, Emmylou Harris, June Tabor
• "Catch Me a Train" by Hasil Adkins
• "Cattail Down"(MewithoutYou) by MewithoutYou
• "Charming Young Widow I Met on the Train, The" (W. H. Gove), broadside published before 1867^[177]
• "Chatsworth Wreck, The" (Thomas P. Westendorf, 1913)^[178] by Bucky Halker & Johnsburg 3^[179]
• "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordon) by Beegie Adair, The Andrews Sisters, Ray Anthony, Asleep at the Wheel, BBC Big Band, Tex Beneke, George Benson, John Bunch, Cab Calloway, Caravelli, Regina Carter, Ray Charles, Harry Connick, Jr., Ray Conniff, Floyd Cramer, Ernie Fields, Stephane Grappelli & Marc Fosset, Bill Haley & His Comets, John Hammond, Jr., The Harmonizing Four, Harmony Grass, Harpers Bizarre, Ted Heath, Betty Johnson, Susannah McCorkle, Ray McKinley, Big Miller, Glenn Miller, Carmen Miranda, Richard Perlmutter, Oscar Peterson, Elvis Presley, Spike Robinson, Harry Roy, Jan Savitt, The Shadows, Hank Snow, Teddy Stauffer, Dave Taylor, Claude Thornhill, The Tornados, Guy Van Duser^[180]
• "Cherokee Fiddle" (Michael Martin Murphy) by Merle Haggard, Johnny Lee, Michael Martin Murphy
• "Chicago North Western" (Glenn Ross Campbell, Neil Hubbard) by Juicy Lucy
• "Chickasaw Train Blues (Low Down Dirty Thing)" (Minnie McCoy) by Memphis Minnie^[181]
• "Chick-A-Choo Freight" (Bob Newman) by Bob Newman
• "Chicken Train" (Steve Cash) by Ozark Mountain Daredevils
• "Child of the Railroad Engineer, The", also titled "The Two Lanterns" (Harry V. Neal, Gussie L. Davis, 1898) by G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter^[182]
• "Chinacat Sunflower" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) by Grateful Dead
• "Choo Choo (Gotta Hurry Home)" (Bob Schafer, Dave Ringle, Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington, first recording (with The Washingtonians), 1924^[183]
• "Choo Choo Blues" (Virginians) by Virginians, 1922^[184]
• "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" (Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Vaughn Horton, Louis Jordan) by Asleep at the Wheel, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Chilli Willi & The Red Hot Peppers, Clifton Chenier, Chris Daniels & The Kings, John Denver, Five Guys Named Moe, Foghat, The Four Knights, Bill Haley & the Comets, Quincy Jones, Bert Kaempfert, Louis Jordan, Kid Creole & the Coconuts, B.B. King, Jim Kweskin, The Manhattan Transfer, Charlie McCoy, Lucky Millinder, Kenny Roberts, Walter Roland, Widespread Depression Orchestra, Dan Zanes^[185][186]
• "Choo Choo Comin'" (Cuddles Newsome) by The Stanley Brothers
• "Choo Choo Mama" (Alvin Lee) by Ten Years After
• "Choo Choo Train" by The Box Tops
• "Christie Road" (Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day) by Green Day
• "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^[187]
• "Clear the Track" (Jesse Hutchinson, Dan Emmett), published 1844, by Pete Seeger^[188]
• "Click Clack" (Don Van Vliet) by Captain Beefheart^[189]
• "C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)" (C.C. Lemonhead, Michael Phillips, Jay Ski, B. White) by Quad City DJ's
• "Coal Smoke, Valve Oil and Steam" (Fabor Robison, Grady Martin) by Johnny Horton
• "Coal Train" by Crime & the City Solution
• "Coal Train (Stimela)" (Hugh Masekela) by Hugh Masekela^[190]
• "Cole Younger" (Traditional) by Dock Boggs,^[191] R.W. Hampton,^[192] Mary McCaslin,^[193] Michael Martin Murphey^[194]
• "Come on to Nashville, Tennessee" (Walter Donaldson), published 1916^[195]
• "Coming and the Going of the Trains, The" (Red Lane) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "Conclusion of the Railroad Earth" (Jack Kerouac) by Jack Kerouac with Al Cohn & Zoot Sims^[196]
• "Conjunction Junction" from Schoolhouse Rock!
• "Coronation Scot" (Vivian Ellis) by Queens Hall Light Orchestra,^[197] Sidney Torch Orchestra^[198]
• "C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific Railway) Blues" (Robert Charlebois) by Robert Charlebois^[199]
• "Crazy Engineer, The" (Joe Steen) by Hank Snow^[74]
• "Crazy Hannah's Ridin' the Train" (Moe Tucker) by Moe Tucker^[200]
• "Crazy Little Train of Love" (Eddie Miller) by Hank Snow^[74]
• "Crazy Train" (Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley)^[201] by Pat Boone, Carbon Leaf, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Emm Gryner, Iron Horse, Living Loud, Ozzy Osbourne, Dee Snider, These Arms Are Snakes^[202]
• "Crime of the D'Autremont Brothers, The" (Charles Johnson, Paul Johnson) by The Johnson Brothers, 1928^[203]
• "Cross the Tracks (We Better Go Back)" (James Brown) by Maceo & The Macks,^[204] Soul II Soul^[205]
• "Crossing the Grand Sierras" (Henry Clay Work) by Hutchison Family Singers
• "Cross-Tie Walker" (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival^[206]
• "Crystal Chandeliers and Burgundy" (Jack Routh) by Johnny Cash^[207]

D

• "Daddy Was a Railroad Man" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[140]
• "Daddy, What's a Train?" (Utah Phillips) by John Denver, Joe Glazer, Utah Phillips,^[167]
• "Danville Girl" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer^[161]
• "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning, 1958),^[208] also recorded as "Dark Holler", derived from "East Virginia Blues",^[209] by David Bromberg, Gene Clark, John Cohen, J.D. Crowe, Grateful Dead, Clinton Gregory, David Grisman, Aubrey Haynie, The Kentucky Colonels, Benny Martin, Del McCoury, Bill Monroe, Muleskinner, The New Lost City Ramblers, Jeb Loy Nichols, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Seldom Scene, Shannon Saunders, Larry Sparks, Ralph Stanley, The String Cheese Incident, Claire Tomlinson, Mac Wiseman, Joe Val, Dwight Yoakam & The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band^[208][210]
• "Davy's Train Blues" (Alexis Korner, Davey Graham) by Alexis Korner & Davey Graham^[211]
• "Daybreak Express" (Duke Ellington) by John Barry, Duke Ellington^[212]
• "Day the Train Jumped the Tracks" (Michael Carmody) by Split Lip Rayfield^[213]
• "Day We Caught the Train, The" (Damon Michella, Oscar Harrison, Simon Fowler, Steve Cradockby) by Ocean Colour Scene
• "Deep Black Vanishing Train" by Mark Lanegan
• "De Gospel Train", see "Gospel Train"
• "Death's Black Train Is Comin'" by Rev. J. M. Gates, 1926^[214]
• "Desert Moon" (Dennis DeYoung) by Dennis DeYoung^[215]
• "Desperados Waiting for a Train" (Guy Clark) by Bobby Bare, Mark Chesnutt, Guy Clark, David Allen Coe, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Nanci Griffith, The Highwaymen, Slim Pickens, Tom Rush, Martin Simpson, Jerry Jeff Walker^[216]
• "Destination: Anywhere" (Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson) by The Marvelettes, The Commitments (from the film soundtrack)
• "Destination Victoria Station" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash^[207]
• "Detroit Special" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy
• "Devil's Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Roy Acuff, Cliff Carlisle, Mark Erelli (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree); Crooked Fingers (Crooked Fingers); Eric Sardinas (Eric Sardinas)^[217]
• "Die Reise (The Journey)" (Herbert Distel), electro-acoustic composition incorporating tape modulations, wind machines and synthesizers^[218][219]
• "Different Trains" (Steve Reich) by Steve Reich^[220]
• "Diplomat, The" by Johnny Cash
• "Distant Train" (Louis Pyrtle, T. Michael Coleman) by The Seldom Scene
• "Dixie Flyer", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Gene Clark (Thomas Jefferson Kaye),^[221] Lester Flatt (Marty Stuart),^[222] Randy Newman (Randy Newman),^[223] Muggsy Spanier (Walter Melrose)^[224]
• "Dixie Flyer Blues" (Bessie Smith) by Bessie Smith^[225]
• "Do the Choo-Choo" (Gamble and Huff) by Archie Bell & the Drells^[226]
• "Doggone That Train" (Jimmie Davis) by Jimmie Davis (1930),^[227] Hank Snow^[74]
• "Don't Miss That Train" (Sister Wynona Carr) by Sister Wynona Carr, Edwin Hawkins, Joe Liggins, Louisiana Red^[228]
• "Don't Sleep in the Subway" (Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent) by Petula Clark
• "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
• "Dorion Crossing"(Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[229]
• "Down Bound Train" (Chuck Berry) by Chuck Berry^[230]
• "Down by the Railroad Track" (Frank Crumit, Billy Curtis) by Frank Crumit (1930)^[231]
• "Down by the Station" (Slim Gaillard) by Perry Como, Four Preps, Harry James
• "Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" (Paul Weller) by The Jam^[232]
• "Down There by the Train" (Kathleen Brennan/Tom Waits) by Johnny Cash,^[233] Tom Waits^[234]
• "Down Where the Cotton Blossoms Grow" (Harry Von Tilzer, Andrew B. Sterling), published 1900^[235]
• "Downbound Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[236]
• "Downtown Train" (Tom Waits) by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Everything but the Girl, Tom Russell Band, Bob Seger, Patty Smyth, Rod Stewart, Tom Waits^[237]
• "Draize Train" by The Smiths^[238]
• "Dream Train" (Charles Newman, Billy Baskette) by Guy Lombardo^[239]
• "Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill" (attributed to Thomas F. Casey, published 1888) by Arthur Collins,^[240] The Easy Riders,^[241] George J. Gaskin, Bob Gibson, Cisco Houston, Burl Ives, Frank Luther, Chubby Parker, Peerless Quartet, Dan W. Quinn, Earl Robinson, Win Stracke, The Tarriers, The Tradewinds, The Weavers^[240]
• "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.^[242]
• "Drug Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: The Cramps (Lux Interior, Rorscach),^[243] Social Distortion (Mike Ness)^[244]
• "Drunkard, The" (Mike Cross) by Mike Cross^[245]
• "Dulcimer" (David Mallett) by David Mallett^[246]
• "Dummy Line, The" (Unknown, earliest date 1925)^[247] by Michael Cooney, Cindy Mangsen & Anne Hills, Joe Hickerson, Session Americana^[248]
• "Duquesne Whistle" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan^[249]
• "Dying Hobo" by Joe Glazer, Frank Hutchison, Doc Watson

E

• "East Texas Red" (Woody Guthrie) by Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston
• "Easy Rider Blues" (Blind Lemon Jefferson, Joan S. Sommer, Traditional) by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[85]
• "Eastbound Freight Train" (Grandpa Jones) by Grandpa Jones, Jim & Jesse, Reno & Smiley
• "Eastbound Train, The", originally "Going for a Pardon", (James Thornton, Clara Hauenschild), copyright 1896, by Blue Sky Boys (1940), Asa Martin (1928), Riley Puckett (1931), Ernest Stoneman (1928)^[250]
• "Empire Builder" by Mason Jennings
• "Empire State Express" by Son House
• "Electric Train" (Larry Tagg) by Bourgeois Tagg
• "Electric Trains" (Glenn Tilbrook, Chris Difford) by Squeeze^[251]
• "End of Train Device" by Utah Phillips
• "Engine 143" (Traditional, related to "F.F.V." and "Wreck on the C & O")^[252] by Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men, Joan Baez, The Carter Family,^[157] Johnny Cash, The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Kossoy Sisters, Ralph Stanley
• "Engine Driver" (Colin Meloy) by The Decemberists^[253]
• "Engine Engine #9" (Roger Miller) by Roger Miller
• "Engine Number 9" (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe), from the rock musical Starlight Express
• "Engine of Love" (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe), from the rock musical Starlight Express
• "Engine One-Forty-Three" (Traditional) by The Carter Family, Johnny Cash
• "Engineer" (on Russian lang) by "Mordor"
• "Engineer Bill" (Eliza Gilkyson) by Eliza Gilkyson^[254]
• "Engineer's Blues" (Walter Davis) by Walter Davis with Roosevelt Sykes (1931)^[255]
• "Engineer's Child, The" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart, 1926, related to "Just Set a Light" (1896),^[256] Hank Snow^[170]
• "Engineers Don't Wave from the Train Anymore" (Tom T. Hall) by Earl Scruggs, Lynn Morris
• "Evening Train" (Rob Mathes) by Rob Mathes
• "Evening Train, The", also titled "On the Evening Train", (Hank Williams, Audrey Williams, 1949) by Johnny Cash^[257] Molly O'Day^[258]
• "Everybody Loves a Train" (David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez)^[259] by Los Lobos^[260]
• "Express" (Rick Thompson, Bill Risbrook, Carlos Ward, et al.) by B.T. Express^[261]
• "Express Orient" by Batterie-Fanfare de la Garde Républicaine, 1910^[262]
• "Expressman Blues" (James Rachell) by Sleepy John Estes & Yank Rachell (1930)^[263]

F

• "F.F.V." (Traditional, related to "Engine 143" and "Wreck on the C & O", among others) by Doc Watson^[2][252]
• "Fares, Please (The Tram Conductor Girl)" (Bert Lee), copyright 1917^[264]
• "Fast Express" (Traditional) by The Delmore Brothers,^[265] The Stanley Brothers & the Clinch Mountain Boys^[266]
• "Fast Freight" (Terry Gilkyson) by The Easy Riders,^[241] Kingston Trio, Serendipity Singers, Ritchie Valens^[267]
• "Fast Movin' Train" (Dave Loggins) by Restless Heart^[268]
• "Fast Moving Night Train" by Grandpa Jones
• "Fast Train Through Arkansas" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) by The Delmore Brothers,^[269] Wayne Raney^[270]
• "Fast Train" (Myles Goodwyn) by April Wine
• "Fatal Run, The" (Cliff Carlisle) by Cliff Carlisle, 1931^[271]
• "Fear of Trains" (Stephin Merritt) by The Magnetic Fields^[272]
• "Fireball Mail" (Andrew Jenkins) by Roy Acuff, Flatt & Scruggs, Hank Snow^[148]
• "First Train Headin' South" (Johnny Horton)^[273] by Jimmy Dean,^[274] Johnny Horton,^[273] Claude King^[275]
• "First Train Home", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green),^[276] Imogen Heap (Imogen Heap)^[277]
• "Fisherman's Blues" by The Waterboys
• "Flag That Train (to Alabam')" (Lindsay McPhail, Irving Rothschild, Eddie Richmond) by Fred Hamm Orchestra, 1925^[278]
• "Flyin' CPR, The" by Stompin' Tom Connors^[26]
• "Flying Scotsman" (Scott, Wood) by Sidney Torch Orchestra^[198]
• "Folsom Prison Blues" (Johnny Cash)^[279] by Asleep at the Wheel, Chet Atkins, Bobby Bare, Dierks Bentley, Brandi Carlile, Johnny Cash, Roy Clark, Dead Moon, D.O.A., Bob Dylan & The Band, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, The Enid, Everlast, Flatt & Scruggs, Gin Blossoms, Merle Haggard, Hamell on Trial, Slim Harpo, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Highwaymen, Hot Tuna, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jamie Lono, Dutch Mason, Jimmy McCracklin, Paul McDonald, The Mekons, Bill Miller, Keb' Mo', Gram Parsons, Minnie Pearl, Carl Perkins, Charley Pride, Jerry Reed, Billy Lee Riley, Brian Setzer, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, Conway Twitty, Porter Wagoner, Hank Williams, Jr., The Wood Brothers, Sheb Wooley^[280]
• "Fourth Rail" (Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser) by Fred Frith & Henry Kaiser^[281]
• "Frankfort Special" (Sherman Edwards, Donald Meyer, Sid Wayne) by Elvis Presley & The Jordanaires^[282]
• "Freak Train" (Kurt Vile) by Kurt Vile
• "Freedom Train" (Irving Berlin) by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters^[283]
• "Freedom Train" by James Carr, Merle Haggard, Roger Taylor
• "Freedom Train" (Takahiro Matsumoto) by B'z
• "Freedom Train" (Lenny Kravitz) by Lenny Kravitz
• "Freedom Train" (Carl Wells, Larry Rogers, Steve Bogard) by Deacon Blue
• "Freedom Train" (Larry Rogers, Steve Bogard) by Toots & the Maytals
• "Freight Train" (Elizabeth Cotten) by Chet Atkins, Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, Lenny Breau, Elizabeth Cotten, Ani DiFranco & Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Lonnie Donegan, Rusty Draper, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Stefan Grossman & Duck Baker, David Holt & Doc Watson, Jim & Jesse, Kruger Brothers, Peter Lang, Jeremy Lyons, Taj Mahal, Buddy Miller, The Overlanders, Peter & Gordon, Peter, Paul & Mary, Kevin Roth, Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger & Joe Meek, Pete Seeger, James Alan Shelton, George Shuffler, Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Uncle Earl, Doc Watson & Merle Watson, Nancy Whiskey, Simone White, Mac Wiseman. Additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Herb Alpert (John Pisano); Marty Brown (Marty Brown); Kasey Chambers (Kasey Chambers); John Coltrane & Kenn Burrell, Jack Wilkins (Tommy Flanagan); James Cotton (James Cotton); Fred Eaglesmith, Alan Jackson (Fred Eaglesmith); Jim Eanes (Jim Eanes/Lora Lowry); Hunter Hayes (Hunter Hayes); John Hiatt (John Hiatt); John Lee Hooker (John Lee Hooker); R. Stevie Moore (R. Stevie Moore); Nitro (Michael Angelo/Jim Gillette); Ralph Peterson, Jr. (Ralph Peterson, Jr.); Doctor Ross (Isaiah Ross); Johnny Shines (Johnny Shines); Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee) ^[284]
• "Freight Train Blues" (John Lair)^[285][286] by Roy Acuff, 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 & Arlo Guthrie, Merle Travis, Doc Watson, Doc & Merle Watson, The Weavers, Hank Williams.^[287] Additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Lightnin' Hopkins (Lightnin' Hopkins);^[288] Mississippi Fred McDowell (unknown);^[289] Clara Smith (Clara Smith);^[290][291] Trixie Smith & Sidney Bechet (Thomas A. Dorsey, Clarence Williams)^[292]
• "Freight Train Boogie" (Jim Scott) by The Delmore Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Red Foley, Johnny Otis, Reno and Smiley, Doc Watson
• "Freight Train Heart" by Boxcar Willie
• "Freight Train Moanin' Blues" (Billie Pierce) by Billie & De De Pierce^[293]
• "Freight Train Ramble" by Darby & Tarlton
• "Freight Train to Nowhere" (Mark Heard) by Mark Heard,^[294] Vigilantes of Love^[295]
• "Freight Wreck at Altoona, The", see "Wreck of the 1262"
• "Fremont Train, The" (Traditional), 1856, by Oscar Brand^[296]
• "Friendship Train" (Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield) by Lee Hazlewood, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, The Temptations^[297]
• "Frisco Road" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[167]
• "Frisco Train Blues" by Texas Alexander, circa 1928^[298]
• "From a Boxcar Door" (Lloene Martin, Miz Box) by Boxcar Willie^[299]
• "From a Late Night Train" (Paul Buchanan) by The Blue Nile,^[300] Marc Jordan^[301]
• "From a Rolls to the Rails" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[302]
• "Funeral Train" (Rev. J. M. Gates) by Rev. J. M. Gates, 1926^[303]
• "Funky Soul Train" (James Brown) by Hank Ballard, Robert Parker

G

• "Gallopin' Goose" (Chip Davis, Bill Fries) by C. W. McCall^[304]
• "Gandy Dancer's Ball" (Paul Mason Howard, Paul Weston) by Frankie Laine,^[305] The Weavers^[306]
• "Georgia on a Fast Train", see "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train"
• "Georgie on the IRT" (Dave van Ronk), parody of "Wreck on the C & O", by Dave van Ronk^[252]
• "Get Down off of the Train" (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) by The Isley Brothers^[307]
• "Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9" (Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff) by Wilson Pickett
• "Get off the Track!" (Jesse Hutchinson, Jr.), published 1844, by Hutchinson Family Singers^[308]
• "Get on Board, Little Children" (Traditional, attributed to John M. Chamberlain, 1873)^[309] by The Delta Rhythm Boys, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, Red Foley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Freedom Singers, Shari Lewis, Ella Mae Morse, Cliff Richard, Paul Robeson, Carl Story & The Rambling Mountaineers, Jack Teagarden, Shirley Temple^[310]
• "Gettin' Up Holler" (Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[153]
• "Ghetto Train" (John Baylor, Luther Ingram) by Luther Ingram
• "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)^[311]
• "Ghost Trains" (Famous Lashua) by Erlend Oye, Hank Snow^[74]
• "'Ghost Train from Georgia" (Dru Lombar) by Grinderswitch^[312]
• "Giants of Steam" Ron Grainer, music for BBC Television documentary^[313]
• "Glasgow Central" (Billy Connolly) by Billy Connolly^[314]
• "Glendale Train" (John Dawson) by New Riders of the Purple Sage
• "Glory Bound Train" (Traditional) by Bukka White^[315]
• "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),^[316]
• "Go Go Train" by Freda Payne
• "Going Away" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips,^[167] Rosalie Sorrels^[317]
• "Going Home Train" (Harold Rome)^[318] by Lawrence Winters^[319]
• "Going to Memphis" (Johnny Cash, Hollie Dew, Alan Lomax) by Johnny Cash
• "Going to Ride That Midnight Train" (Bill Chitwood, James A. Bland) by Georgia Yellow Hammers, 1927^[320]
• "Golden Rocket, The" (Hank Snow)^[148] by Boxcar Willie, Hank Snow^[148]
• "Gone Darker" (Electrelane, Verity Susman) by Electrelane^[321]
• "Gone Dead Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: King Solomon Hill (King Solomon Hill); Nazareth,^[322] Randy Newman,^[323] George Thorogood & the Destroyers,^[324] Neil Young & Crazy Horse^[325] (Jack Nitzsche, Russ Titelman)
• "Gone, Just Like a Train" by Bill Frisell^[326]
• "Goodbye Train" by Grayson Hugh
• "Gospel Train" (Traditional) by Marian Anderson,^[327] Acker Bilk,^[328] Eubie Blake,^[329] The Four Knights, John Hammond, Jr., Mahalia Jackson, Marie Knight, The Lewis Family, Larry Sparks, Sister Rosetta Tharpe,^[328] Willard White^[330]
• "Graffiti on the Train" (Kelly Jones) by Stereophonics^[331]
• "Graveyard Train" (John Fogerty) by Creedence Clearwater Revival^[332]
• "Great American Bum" (Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[153]
• "Great Crush Collision March, The" (Scott Joplin, 1896)^[333] by Scott Joplin^[334]
• "Great Locomotive Chase, The" by Robert W. Smith
• "Great Nashville Railroad Disaster (A True Story), The" (Bobby Braddock, Rafe VanNoy) by David Allan Coe^[335]
• "Greenville Trestle High" (James Jett, Joan Jett) by James Reams, Ricochet, Doc Watson^[336]

H

• "Hank and the Hobo" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[140]
• "Happy Go Lucky Local" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington^[86]
• "Harvard Student, The", also titled "The Pullman Train", (attributed to Louis Shreve Osborne, 1871)^[337] by Doney Hammontree^[338]
• "Hate Train" by Metallica
• "He Is Coming to Us Dead" (G. B. Grayson, adapted from "Just Set a Light", 1896)^[256] by Dry Branch Fire Squad (2005),^[339] G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter (1928),^[340] The New Lost City Ramblers,^[341] Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys (1996)^[342]
• "He Was in Heaven Before He Died" by John Prine
• "He's Gone" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) by Grateful Dead
• "Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow" by Roger Whittaker
• "Hear My Train A Comin'" (Jimi Hendrix) by Jimi Hendrix
• "Hear That Whistle Blow (A Hundred Miles)", adaptation of "500 Miles" (Hedy West), by Flatt & Scruggs^[343]
• "Heart Like a Locomotive" (Joe Droukas) by (Paul Butterfield^[344]
• "Heart Like Locomotive" (Verona) by Verona^[345]
• "Heart Like Railroad Steel" (Charley Patton) by Charley Patton^[346]
• "Heartbreak Express", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Dolly Parton (Dolly Parton),^[347] Alabama (Jeff Cook, Phil Wolfe)^[348]
• "Heaven Bound Train" (Carl Story) by Carl Story
• "Hellbound Train" by (Andy Silvester, Kim Simmonds) by Lita Ford, Savoy Brown
• "Hell Bound Train" (Traditional) by Frank Hutchison^[163]
• "Hello Hopeville" by Michelle Shocked
• "Helping Hand (A Thousand Miles from Home)" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino), related to Jimmie Rodgers's "Waiting for a Train",^[349] by Fats Domino,^[350] Snooks Eaglin^[349]
• "Here Comes the Freedom Train" (Stephen H. Lemberg) by Merle Haggard
• "Here Comes the Train" by Solomon Burke
• "Here We Are, Here We Are! (or Cross ober Jordan)" (Daniel D. Emmett, published 1863)^[351]
• "Here's to You Rounders" (Don Lange) by Art Thieme
• "Hey Conductor" (Dave Carter) by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer^[352]
• "Hey Porter" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash^[207]
• "Hey, Hey Train" (Marty Stuart) by Johnny Cash^[353]
• "High Speed Train" by R.E.M.
• "Hobo Bill" by Martha Copeland^[354][355]
• "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" (Waldo O'Neal), published 1929,^[356] by Gene Autry, Johnny Cash, Bill Clifton, Iris DeMent, Merle Haggard, Cisco Houston, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Doc & Merle Watson^[357]
• "Hobo Blues" (Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker) by Jeff Beck, Big Bill Broonzy, 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)^[358]
• "Hobo Heaven" by Boxcar Willie
• "Hobo Jungle" by The Band
• "Hobo Kinda Man" (Gary Rossington, Johnny Van Zant, Rick Medlocke, Trey Bruce) by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Hobo Martin" by Benny Martin
• "Hobo's Lullabye" (Goebel Reeves, 1934)^[359] by Graeme Allwright, Joan Baez, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Arlo Guthrie, Woody Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, The Kingston Trio, The Nields, Goebel Reeves, Alf Robertson, Kevin Roth, Gary & Randy Scruggs, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger, Bill Staines, Vanaver Caravan^[360]
• "Hobo's Meditation" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Boxcar Willie, Michael Chapman,^[361] Joe Glazer,^[161] Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb^[361]
• "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" (Louis Armstrong) by Louis Armstrong^[362]
• "Home in a Boxcar" (Sean Hoots) by Hoots & Hellmouth^[363]
• "Homeward Bound" (Irving Berlin), published 1915, from the musical comedy Watch Your Step^[364]
• "Homeward Bound" (Paul Simon) by Simon and Garfunkel^[365]
• "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade Lux Lewis) by Meade Lux Lewis^[366]
• "Hot Box Blues" (Randy Leiner) by Boxcar Willie^[302]
• "Hot Rails to Hell" (Jeff Bouchard, Joe Bouchard) by Blue Öyster Cult,^[367] The Meatmen^[368]
• "Hot Town (Fess Williams) by Fess Williams & His Royal Flush Orchestra^[369]
• "How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone" (Frank Wilson) by The Supremes^[370]
• "How Long, How Long Blues", (Leroy Carr, 1928),^[371] Kokomo Arnold, Chris Barber's Jazz Band, Walter Barnes, Count Basie, Barney Bigard, Big Bill Broonzy, Leroy Carr, Ray Charles, James Cotton, Eric Clapton, Pee Wee Crayton, Blind John Davis, Blind John Davis & Big Bill Broonzy, Wilbur De Paris, Fats Domino, Lonnie Donegan, Champion Jack Dupree, Archie Edwards, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Doc Evans, John Fahey, Michael Falzarano, Ella Fitzgerald, Jesse Fuller, Nat Gonella & His Georgians, Davy Graham, Andy Griffith, Coleman Hawkins, Art Hodes & The Magnolia Jazz Band, Richard "Groove" Holmes, John Lee Hooker, Hot Tuna, Betty Hutton, Milt Jackson, Skip James, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Pete Johnson, Betty Hall Jones, Jorma Kaukonen, B.B. King, Alexis Korner, Kruger Brothers, Lead Belly, Smiley Lewis, Wingy Manone & His Orchestra, Del McCoury, Jay McShann, Myra Melford, Memphis Slim, John Mooney, Jimmy Murphy, Jimmy Nelson, Red Nichols & His Five Pennies, Odetta, Pinetop Perkins, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Sammy Price, Lou Rawls, Johnnie Ray, Toshi Reagon, Buddy Rich, Jimmy Rushing, Brother John Sellers, Jack Sheldon, Sunnyland Slim, Monty Sunshine, Roosevelt Sykes, Tampa Red, Big Joe Turner, Big Joe Turner & Mike Bloomfield, Dave Van Ronk, Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang, T-Bone Walker, Billy Ward & the Dominoes, Dinah Washington, Doc & Merle Watson, Josh White, Doc Wiley, Jimmy Witherspoon, Jimmy Yancey, Ma Yancey^{[371][372][373]}

I

• "I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train" (Billy Joe Shaver) by Johnny Cash, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson
• "I Do Wonder Is My Mother on That Train?" (Traditional) by Blind Joe Taggart,^[374] Josh White^[375]
• "I Got the Train Sittin', Waitin'" (Allen Reynolds) by Waylon Jennings
• "I.G.Y." (Donald Fagen) by Donald Fagen^[376]
• "I Hate the Train Called the M & O" (Unknown) by Lucille Bogan, 1934^[377]
• "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow", see "Lonesome Whistle"
• "I Know You Rider" (Traditional) by Big Brother & the Holding Company, Grateful Dead, Judy Henske, Hot Tuna, Phil Lesh, Fred Neil
• "I Like Trains", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Jim & Jesse, Bob Luman (Glenn Sutton); Fred Eaglesmith (Fred Eaglesmith) the most noticeable of which is about a character from Tomska's asdfmovie, simply dubbed the "I like trains kid."
• "I Love the Sound of a Whistle" by Boxcar Willie
• "I Often Dream of Trains" (Robyn Hitchcock)^[378] by Firewater,^[379] Robyn Hitchcock,^[378] Grant Lee Phillips,^[380]
• "I Once Knew a Chap Who Discharged a Function" (Gilbert & Sullivan), from Thespis)
• "I Packed My Suitcase, Started to the Train" (Jennie Mae Clayton, Will Shade) by Memphis Jug Band, 1927^[381][382]
• "I Play Chicken with the Train" by Cowboy Troy
• "I treni di Tozeur" (Franco Battiato, Giusto Pio) by Carla Bissi & Franco Battiato
• "I Want to Be in Dixie" (Irving Berlin), published 1912^[283]
• "I Want to Go to Morrow" (Lew Sully), published 1898,^[383] by Dan W. Quinn, recorded 1902^[384]
• "I Was the Train" (Adam Pope) by Vince Mira^[385]
• "I Wish My Mother Was on That Train" by Blind Joe Taggart^[386]
• "I'll Be Home on Christmas Day" (Michael Jarrett) by Elvis Presley^[387]
• "I'll Keep It With Mine" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan^[388]
• "I'm a Train" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood) by Albert Hammond
• "I'm Alabama Bound" (Robert Hoffman, 1909), often recorded as "Alabama Bound", by The Charlatans,^[389] The Delmore Brothers,^[390] The Greenbriar Boys,^[391] Woody Guthrie,^[392] Mississippi John Hurt,^[393] Papa Charlie Jackson (1925, first known recording),^[394] Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5,^[395] Peter La Farge,^[396] Mance Lipscomb,^[397] Roger McGuinn,^[398] Roger McGuinn & Pete Seeger,^[399] Jelly Roll Morton,^[400] Odetta,^[401] Tom Rush,^[402] Pete Seeger,^[403] Doc Watson,^[404] Doc & Merle Watson^[405]
• "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome" by Bill Monroe
• "I'm Going Home on the Heaven Bound Train" by Rev. J.M. Gates, circa 1930^[298]
• "I'm Going Home on the Morning Train" (Traditional) by Ruth Brown,^[406] Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper,^[407] Arizona Dranes^[408] Molly O'Day^[2]
• "I'm Leavin' on That Blue River Train" (Carson Robison) by Gene Autry,^[409] Carson Robison^[410]
• "I'm Leavin' on the Midnight Train" (Lead Belly) by Lead Belly^[411]
• "I'm Leaving on That Late, Late Train" (Solomon Burke) by Solomon Burke^[412]
• "I'm Movin' On" (Hank Snow) by Roy Acuff, John Barry, Hoagy Carmichael, Rosanne Cash, Ray Charles, King Curtis, The Everly Brothers, Jimmy Lee Fautheree, Charlie Feathers, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Connie Francis, Billy Fury, Hank Garland, Don Gibson, Merle Haggard, John Hammond, Jr., Emmylou Harris, Al Hirt, John Kay, Jerry Lee Lewis, Willie Nelson, Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis, The Pagans, Elvis Presley, Professor Longhair, Jerry Reed, Rolling Stones, Leon Russell, Hank Snow, Steppenwolf, Taste, George Thorogood, Mel Tillis, Ernest Tubb, Tina Turner, Mac Wiseman, Gene Vincent, Faron Young^[413][414]
• "I've Been Working on the Railroad" (Traditional), first published in Carmina Princetonia, Princeton University, 1894,^[415] by Laurie Berkner, Oscar Brand, The Carter Sisters & Mother Maybelle with Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Dick Curless, Robert DeCormier, John Denver, Tim Hardin, Ella Jenkins, Reckless Kelly, Liberace, Arthur Lyman, Randy Newman, Les Paul, Raffi, Pete Seeger, Buckwheat Zydeco^[416]
• "I've Got a Mind to Ramble" by Alberta Hunter
• "I've Got a Thing About Trains" by Johnny Cash
• "I've Got the Railroad Blues" by Gene Austin & George Reneau, The Delmore Brothers
• "If I Die a Railroad Man" (unknown) by Bailey Green, The Tenneva Ramblers^[417]
• "If Love Was a Train" (Michelle Shocked) by Johnny Cash, Terri Hendrix, Taylor James, Michelle Shocked
• "If the Brakeman Turns My Way" (Conor Oberst, Jason Boesel) (by Bright Eyes)
• "In a Boxcar around the World' (Cliff Carlisle), 1936, by Cliff Carlisle^[418]
• "In a Station" (Richard Manuel) by The Band,^[419] Olivia Newton-John^[420]
• "In the Baggage Coach Ahead" (Gussie Davis), published 1886,^[421] by Fiddlin' John Carson (1924),^[422] Vernon Dalhart (1918),^[423] George J. Gaskin (c. 1898), Andrew Jenkins & Carson Robison (1928),^[422] J. W. Myers (1905),^[424] Dick Nolan (1974),^[425] Steve Porter (1899),^[426][427] Kate Smith (1932),^[422] Mac Wiseman (1960)^[428]
• "In the Middle of the House" (Bob Hilliard) by The Ames Brothers, Milton Berle, Alma Cogan, Rusty Draper, The Johnston Brothers, Vaughn Monroe^[429]
• "In the Pines" (Traditional, related to "Black Girl"/"The Longest Train"/"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?") by Bill Monroe,^[430] Dock Walsh (1925),^[431] Mac Wiseman^[432]
• "Indian Pacific, The" by Slim Dusty
• "Into You Like a Train" by The Psychedelic Furs
• "Iron Horses of Delson, The" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[229]
• "It Takes a Long Train (With a Red Caboose)" by Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee
• "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (Bob Dylan) by Bitter:Sweet, Blue Cheer, Ray Bonneville, David Bromberg, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan & Neil Young, Fairport Convention, Marianne Faithfull, Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders, Grateful Dead, Heart of Gold Band, Levon Helm, Robyn Hitchcock, Bruce Hornsby, Ashley Hutchings, Al Jones, Lisa Kindred, Kingfish, Kokomo, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills & Mike Bloomfield, Little Feat, Ulf Lundell, Mel Lyman, Taj Mahal, Ian Matthews, Mendoza Line, Frankie Miller, Tracy Nelson, Leon Russell, Earl Scruggs, Chris Smither, Phoebe Snow, Bobby Solo, Stoneground, Tír na nÓg, Toto, Artie & Happy Traum, Martha Velez, The Winkies, Ygdrassil^[433]

J

• "J C Cohen" (parody of "Casey Jones"), by Allan Sherman
• "J. C. Holmes Blues" (Gus Horsley, parody of "Casey Jones")^[434] by Bessie Smith^[225]
• "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) by Dark Star Orchestra,^[435] Grateful Dead,^[436] Bruce Hornsby,^[437] Robert Hunter,^[438] Spear of Destiny,^[439] Bob Weir^[440]
• "Japanese Cowboy" by Ween
• "Jay Gould's Daughter" (Traditional, related to "Milwaukee Blues") by Pete Seeger^[341][441]
• "Jay Goose Is Dead" (Traditional, part of "Jay Gould" family) by J. E. Mainer & His Mountaineers^[441]
• "Jenny Dreamed of Trains" (Guy Clark, Vince Gill) by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Guy Clark, John Denver, Vince Gill, Sweethearts of the Rodeo
• "Jenny on the Railroad" (Traditional) by Tracy Schwarz & Mike Seeger with The New Lost City Ramblers^[442] The Horse Flies
• "Jerry, Go Ile (Oil) That Car" by Harry McClintock^[341]
• "Jessie at the Railway Bar", also titled "Jessie, the Belle at the Bar", (G. Ware), broadside published 1884^[443]
• "Jim Blake's Message" (Traditional, copyrighted by Carson Robison, Pete Condon, 1927) by The Carter Family, Vernon Dalhart, Phipps Family, Jean Ritchie^[444]
• "Jimmie the Kid" (Jack Neville, Jimmie Rodgers) by Gene Autry,^[445] Merle Haggard,^[446] Jimmie Rodgers,^[447] Hank Snow^[448]
• "John Hardy" (Traditional) by Tom Adams, Clarence "Tom" Ashley, Joan Baez, Bobby Bare, Leon Bibb, Norman Blake, Dock Boggs, Jimmy Bowen, The Carter Family, Billy Childish, Roy Clark, Michael Cleveland, The Coachmen, Fred Cockerham, Country Gazette, The Country Gentlemen, The Dillards, Lonnie Donegan, The Easy Riders, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Paul Evans, Raymond Fairchild, Flatt & Scruggs with Doc Watson, Bela Fleck, Michael Fracasso, Bill Frisell, The Gun Club, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Roy Harvey, Wayne Henderson, Bart Hopkin, Lightnin' Hopkins, Cisco Houston, Burl Ives, Tommy Jarrell, Buell Kazee, Kentucky Colonels, Koerner, Ray & Glover, The Lilly Brothers, Laura Love, Manfred Mann, Ed McCurdy, John McEuen, Katy Moffatt, Bill Monroe, Andrew Morse, Alan Munde, Northern Lights, Osborne Brothers, Peter Ostroushko, Pine Valley Cosmonauts, Jerry Reed, Ola Belle Reed, Don Reno, Tony Rice, Luther Russell, Doug Sahm, Earl Scruggs, Charles Seeger, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Silver Apples, Martin Simpson, Sir Douglas Quintet, 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^[449]
• "John Henry" (Traditional, numerous variations) by Pink Anderson,^[450] Chet Baker, Harry Belafonte,^[451] Leon Bibb,^[452] Dock Boggs, Big Bill Broonzy,^[451] The Book of Knots,^[453] Buster Brown, Gabriel Brown, Hylo Brown, Ace Cannon,^[451] Fiddlin' John Carson,^[452] Cephas & Wiggins, Aaron Copland, The Cows, Joe Craven,^[451] Johnny Cash,^[207] Cuff the Duke,^[453] Eric Darling, Little Jimmy Dickens, Lonnie Donegan, Duane Eddy,^[451] Ramblin' Jack Elliott,^[454] David Dudley, Snooks Eaglin, John Fahey, Raymond Fairchild, Flatt & Scruggs, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jesse Fuller, Tony Furtado, Alice Gerrard & Hazel Dickens, Bob Gibson, Lloyd Green, David Grisman, The Gun Club, Woody Guthrie, Rolf Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Roscoe Holcomb, Johnny Horton, Burl Ives, John Jackson,^[451] The Johnson Mountain Boys,^[455] Grandpa Jones, Garrison Keillor, The Kentucky Colonels, Hugh Laurie, Lead Belly, Furry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Lilly Brothers,^[451] The Limeliters,^[456] Uncle Dave Macon,^[457] Taj Mahal, J. E. Mainer, The Mammals, Jimmy Martin, John McCutcheon, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Memphis Slim, Charlie Monroe, Bill Monroe, Odetta, Jerry Reed, Harvey Reid, John Renbourn, Don Reno & Red Smiley,^[451] Lesley Riddle^[403] Paul Rishell & Annie Raines, Paul Robeson, Tracy Schwarz, Mike Seeger, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Ralph Stanley, Staple Singers, Stringbean,^[451] Marty Stuart,^[458] Texas Ruby & Curly Fox, Henry Thomas, Hank Thompson, Merle Travis, Porter Wagoner, Steve Wariner, Doc Watson, Josh White, Paul Winter, Chubby Wise^[451]
• "Journeyman" (Ian Anderson) by Jethro Tull
• "Jump That Train" (Lonesome Dave Peverett) by Foghat
• "Jumping Someone Else's Train" (Michael Dempsey, Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst, Lol Tolhurst) by The Cure
• "Junction" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[229]
• "Jungle Train" by Babes in Toyland
• "Jupiter and the 119, The" (Todd Sheaffer) by Railroad Earth
• "Just Another Whistle Stop" (Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson) by The Band,^[459] Phil Lesh^[460]
• "Just Like This Train" (Joni Mitchell) by Joni Mitchell^[461]
• "Just Missed the Train" (Danielle Brisebois, Scott Cutler) by Danielle Brisebois, Kelly Clarkson, Carly Hennessy, Trine Rein
• "Just Set a Light" (Henry V. Neal, Gussie L. Davis), circa 1896,^[462] basis for "The Engineer's Child" and "He's Coming to Us Dead"^[256]

K

• "Kansas City Southern" (Gene Clark) by Dillard & Clark
• "Kassie Jones" (Furry Lewis) by Furry Lewis^[341]
• "K.C. Blues" (Traditional) by Frank Hutchison,^[163] Hobart Smith
• "K.C. Railroad Blues", also titled "K.C. Moan", (Andrew Baxter, Jim Baxter, 1927)^[463] by Andrew & Jim Baxter,^[464] Memphis Jug Band, Riley Puckett^[463]
• "K.C. Railroad Blues" by Curly Fox
• "Keep on Rollin' Down the Line" by Boxcar Willie
• "Kentucky Borderline" (Terry Herd, Rhonda Vincent) by Rhonda Vincent^[465]
• "Kentucky Hill Special" (Traditional) by Lonesome Pine Fiddlers
• "King of the Road" (Roger Miller) by Boxcar Willie, Roger Miller, Randy Travis & Josh Turner
• "Kundalini Express" (Love and Rockets) by The Flaming Lips, Love and Rockets

L

• "L'Oeil écoute (The Eye Listening)" (Bernard Parmegiani) by Groupe de Recherches Musicales^[466][467]
• "L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore, The" (Jean Ritchie) by Norman Blake, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Bobby Goldsboro, Kathy Mattea, Jean Ritchie, Michelle Shocked^[468]
• "L.& W. R.R. Station in Kentucky" (Frank Crumit) by Frank Crumit & Carson Robison^[469]
• "Lafayette Railroad" (Bill Payne, Lowell George) by Little Feat
• "Land of Hope and Dreams" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[470]
• "Last Cannonball" by Mary McCaslin
• "Last Carnival, The" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[471]
• "Last Express, The" by Vernian Process
• "Last Fair Deal Gone Down" (Robert Johnson) by Beck, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Rory Block, Piet Botha, Greg Brown, 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^[472]
• "Last Lonely Train" (John Altenburgh) by John Altenburgh
• "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" (Ray Davies) by The Kinks^[473]
• "Last Old Train's A-Leavin'" (Jean Ritchie) by Jean Ritchie^[474]
• "Last Ride, The" (Ted Daffan) by Hank Snow^[74]
• "Last Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: The Backsliders (Stephen Howell, Chip Robinson), Bon Jovi (Jon Bon Jovi, Mark Hudson), Eric Clapton (Irvin Benno, Marc Benno), Dead Moon (Fred Cole), Graham Central Station (Larry Graham), Arlo Guthrie (Arlo Guthrie), The King Brothers (Newell Burton, Johnny Dyer, T. Graphia, Lee King, Sam King, John "Juke" Logan, G. McGlothen), Leo Kottke (John Fahey), Jimmy LaFave (Jimmy LaFave), Primal Scream (Andrew Innes, Bobby Gillespie, Martin Duffy, Robert "Throb" Young), Allen Toussaint (Allen Toussaint), Peter Rowan (Peter Rowan), Travis (Francis Healy), Yes (Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Chris Squire, Alan White)^[475]
• "Last Train from Poor Valley" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake, The Seldom Scene
• "Last Train Home" by Armored Saint, Pat Metheny
• "Last Train Home" by Lostprophets
• "Last Train Home" (Paul Field, Dave Cooke) by Network 3
• "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart) by Four Tops, The Monkees
• "Last Train to Daggenham" by Cock Sparrer
• "Last Train to Glory" (A. P. Carter) by Oakridge Boys, Jeannie C. Riley
• "Last Train to Heaven" by Boxcar Willie
• "Last Train to Lhasa" (Toby Marks) by Banco de Gaia
• "Last Train to London" (Jeff Lynn) by Electric Light Orchestra
• "Last Train to Loveland" (Bill Blackburn, Eddie Hinton) by Eddie Hinton
• "Last Train to San Antone" (Danni Leigh) by Danni Leigh
• "Last Train to San Fernando" (Bob Devere) by Johnny Duncan
• "Last Train to Trancentral" (Bill Drummond, Jimmy Cauty, Ricky Lyte) by The KLF
• "Late for the Train" (John Maher, Pete Shelley, Steve Diggle, Steve Garvey) by the Buzzcocks^[476]
• "Lazarus" by Porcupine Tree
• "Leavin' Memphis, Frisco Bound" (Jesse Fuller) by Jesse Fuller^[477]
• "Leavin' Train" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[478]
• "Legend of John Henry" (see "John Henry") by Johnny Cash
• "Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) by Hasil Adkins, Chuck Berry, Jerry Garcia, The Georgia Satellites, The Head Cat, The MC5, Motörhead, John Oates, Rockpile, The Rolling Stones, Bob Seger, Shadows of Knight, The Stray Cats, George Thorogood, Widespread Panic, The Yardbirds
• "Let Me Ride the Southbound" by Rex Allen, Sr.
• "Let the Train Whistle Blow" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash, Old 97's
• "Letter, The" (Wayne Carson Thompson) by Box Tops, Joe Cocker
• "Life's Railway to Heaven", also titled "Life Is Like a Mountain Railway", (M. E. Abbey, Charles Davis Tillman), sheet music published 1893, by Roy Acuff, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Bill Anderson, Mandy Barnett, The Blue Sky Boys, Boxcar Willie, The Browns,^[479] Henry Burr & James Stanley,^[480] Clifford Cairns & Charles Harrison,^[481] Johnny Cash, The Cathedrals, The Chuck Wagon Gang, & Ricky Skaggs, Bill Coleman, Lacy J. Dalton, Jimmy Dean, Patsy Cline, The Charlie Daniels Band, John Fahey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill & Gloria Gaither, The Greenbriar Boys, Buddy Greene, Merle Haggard, George Hamilton IV, Burl Ives, Norma Jean, Jim & Jesse, The Jordanaires, The Kendalls, Bradley Kincaid, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn, & Patsy Cline, Bill Monroe, Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dorothy Norwood, & Albertina Walker, The Oak Ridge Boys, Brad Paisley, The Rice Brothers, Roscoe Robinson, Linda Ronstadt, The Seldom Scene, The Sensational Nightingales, Jean Shepard, George Shuffler, The Statler Brothers, The Stoneman Family, Carl Story, Russ Taff, Porter Wagoner^[479]
• "Light at the End of the Tunnel", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Richie Havens (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Richard Stilgoe); Keith Whitley (Don Cook, Keith Whitley)
• "Lightning Express, The" (J. Fred Helf, Eddie Moran) by Vernon Dalhart (1925),^[482] Gid Tanner (1924),^[483] Frank Hutchison^[163]
• "Like a Freight Train" (John Hiatt) by John Hiatt (2010)
• "Like the 309" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash
• "Lincoln's Funeral Train" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake & Tony Rice^[484]
• "Linin' Track" (Traditional) by Jesse Fuller, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Lead Belly, Taj Mahal, Fred Neil, Omar & the Howlers^[485]
• "Little Black Train" (Traditional) by Dock Boggs,^[486] The Carter Family,^[157] Carlene Carter^[487] Jesse Fuller, Woody Guthrie,^[488]
• "Little Engine That Could, The" (Billy May/Warren Foster) by John Denver
• "Little Rootie Tootie" (Thelonious Monk) by Thelonious Monk
• "Little Stream of Whiskey" (Traditional) by Norman Blake & Nancy Blake, Old Man Luedecke, Shannon McNally, Doc Watson, Doc & Merle Watson^[489]
• "Little Red Caboose" (Traditional) by Joanie Bartels, Laurie Berkner, Ella Jenkins, Elizabeth Mitchell & Lisa Loeb, Odetta, Sweet Honey in the Rock,^[490] Henry Thomas,^[158] Buckwheat Zydeco^[490]
• "Little Train From Caipira" by Heitor Villa-Lobos
• "Loco Madi" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra^[491]
• "Locomotion" (Donald Fraser), soundtrack from a 1975 British Transport Films documentary directed by Geoffrey Jones^{[492][493][494]}
• "Loco-Motion, The" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) by Little Eva, Kylie Minogue
• "Locomotive", separate songs, artists followed by composers: John Coltrane (John Coltrane); Guns & Roses (Axl Rose, Slash); Vic Juris, Red Mitchell Jazz Trio, Thelonious Monk (Thelonious Monk); Les Tambours du Bronx (Les Tambours du Bronx); Matthews Southern Comfort (Terri Binion); Motörhead (Lemmy Kilmister, Michael Burston, Pete Gill, Phil Campbell); Susan Tedeschi (Susan Tedeschi); Alex Winston (Alex Winston, The Knocks)
• "Locomotive Breath" (Ian Anderson) by Jethro Tull, Dave McCann, Rabbitt, Styx, W.A.S.P.^[495]
• "Locomotive Man" (Johnny Cash) by Johnny Cash
• "Loco Motives" by Little Feat
• "Log Train, The" by Hank Williams
• "Lokomotīve jūras krastā" by Dzeltenie Pastnieki
• "London" (Johnny Marr, Morrissey) by The Smiths
• "London Underground by Amateur Transplants
• "London Train" by Oliver Sain
• "Lonesome Frisco Line" by Darby & Tarlton
• "Lonesome Joe" (Roy Acuff) by Roy Acuff,^[496] Boxcar Willie
• "Lonesome Pine Special (Sara Carter by The Carter Family^[157]
• "Lonesome Railroad" by Lynn Morris Band
• "Lonesome Train" (J.J. Cale) by J.J. Cale^[497]
• "Lonesome Train (on a Lonesome Track)" (Glen Moore, Milton Subotsky) by Johnny Burnette, Robert Gordon & Link Wray^[498]
• "Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis, Hank Williams), also recorded as "I Heard That Lonesome Whistle Blow",^[499] by Boxcar Willie, Johnny Cash,^[500] Lacy J. Dalton,^[501] Bobby Darin, Jimmie Davis, The Easy Riders,^[500] Dale Evans,^[502] Charlie Feathers,^[500] George Hamilton IV,^[503] Ronnie Hawkins, Rev. Horton Heat, Ferlin Husky,^[500] Jim & Jesse,^[504] George Jones, Little Feat, Robert Lockwood, Jr.^[500] Charlie McCoy,^[505] Ricky Nelson,^[506] Del Shannon,^[507] Hank Snow, Gene Vincent, Hank Williams.^[500]
• "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), Conway Twitty (Conway Twitty)^[508]
• "Long Train" by Guy Davis
• "Long Train" by Hamilton Camp
• "Long Train Runnin'" (Tom Johnston)^[509] by Bananarama,^[510] The Doobie Brothers^[509]
• "Long Twin Silver Line" (Bob Seger) by Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band^[511]
• "Longest Train I Ever Saw, The" by Frank Hutchison^[163]
• "Lord Made a Hobo Out of Me, The" (Boxcar Willie) by Boxcar Willie^[302]
• "Lord of the Trains" (Tom Russell) by Tom Russell
• "Losing My Blues Tonight" (Slim Dusty) by Slim Dusty
• "Lost Train Blues" (Traditional) by The Blue Sky Boys, Woody Guthrie, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith, The Stanley Brothers^[512]
• "Love in Vain" (Robert Johnson) by Mickey Baker, John Baldry, Bob Brozman, Eric Clapton, Faces, Bob Franke, Robert Johnson, Tony McPhee, Keb' Mo', New Barbarians, Madeleine Peyroux, The Rolling Stones, Tesla^[513]
• "Love Is a Train", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Willie Nile (Willie Nile);^[514] Dwight Twilley (Dwight Twilley)^[515]
• "Love on a Blue Train" (Sheila E.) by Sheila E.^[516]
• "Love Train" by Jimmy Castor Bunch, Holly Johnson, The O'Jays, Wolfmother
• "Love's Train" by Con Funk Shun
• "Lynnville Train" (Leroy Preston, Robert Earl Keen) by Robert Earl Keen

M

• "M & O Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[517]
• "Mail Train Blues" (Blair, Lethwick) by Sippie Wallace^[518]
• "Mainliner" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) by Esther Phillips^[519]
• "Mama from the Train (A Kiss, A Kiss)" (Irving Gordon) by Homer & Jethro,^[520] Patti Page^[521]
• "Mamie's Blues", see "2:19 Blues"
• "Man of Constant Sorrow" (Traditional) by Joan Baez, Ginger Baker, The Country Gentlemen, The Dillards, Bob Dylan, David Grisman & Ralph Stanley, Carolyn Hester, Waylon Jennings, Peter Rowan, Soggy Bottom Boys, The Stanley Brothers, Rod Stewart
• "Many a Man Killed on the Railroad" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer^[161]
• "Marbletown" (Mark Knopfler) by Blue Highway, Mark Knopfler
• "Maree Line, The" by Ted Egan
• "Marrakesh Express" (Graham Nash) by Crosby, Stills and Nash, Stan Getz
• "Me and Bobby McGee" (Fred Foster, Fred L. Foster, Kris Kristofferson) by Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, Grateful Dead, Arlo Guthrie, Merle Haggard, Thelma Houston, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Sleepy Labeef, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gordon Lightfoot, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Willie Nelson, Olivia Newton-John, Charley Pride, Kenny Rogers, Hank Snow, The Statler Brothers, Jerry Jeff Walker^[522]
• "Me and That Train" (Patty Larkin) by Patty Larkin
• "Mean Old Frisco (Mean Old Frisco Blues)" by Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Snooks Eaglin,^[349] Eric Clapton
• "Meat Train at Midnight" by Mad Sin
• "Medicine Train" (Ian Astbury, Billy Duffy) by The Cult
• "Meet Me at the Station" by Rev. Gary Davis
• "Meet Me at the Station, Dear" (Sam L. Lewis, Joe Young, Ted Snyder), sheet music published 1917^[523]
• "Memphis Flyer" (Neil Diamond) by Neil Diamond
• "Memphis Train" (Rufus Thomas) by Buddy Miles, Ryan Shaw, Rufus Thomas
• "Metro, The" (John Crawford) by Berlin
• "Midnight Flyer" (Arthur Pryor) by The Pryor Band, 1904^[524]
• "Midnight Flyer" by The Eagles, Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman
• "Midnight Special" (Traditional) by Harry Belafonte, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bobby Darin, Lonnie Donegan, Jesse Fuller, Joe Glazer, Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger, The Kingston Trio, Lead Belly, Van Morrison, Odetta, Johnny Rivers, The Weavers
• "Midnight Special" (Jimmy Smith) by Jimmy Smith (1960)
• "Midnight Train, The", traditional, published by Dorothy Scarborough^[525] and by Carl Sandburg,^[526] recorded by Dan Zanes (2004)
• "Midnight Train" by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
• "Midnight Train" by Jim & Jesse McReynolds
• "Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight & The Pips
• "Midnight Train to Memphis" by Kid Rock^[527]
• "Mile Long Train" (Nelson) by Jimmy Dean^[528]
• "Milk Train", separate songs, artist followed by composer: Everly Brothers (Tony Romeo);^[529] Jefferson Airplane (Papa John Creach, Grace Slick, Roger Spotts)^[530]
• "Milwaukee Blues" (Traditional, related to "Jay Gould's Daughter") by Charlie Poole & the North Carolina Ramblers, 1930^[441]
• "Miniature Railway" from the Battersea Park Suite (William Blezard) by Royal Ballet Sinfonia^[531]
• "Missing Train" by Richie Havens
• "Mississauga" by Martine St. Clair (lyrics Luc Plamondon, music Germain Gauthier). Album track on "Cœur Ordinateur" (1982 vinyl LP); describes the 1979 Mississauga train derailment and mass evacuation of Mississauga, Ontario.
• "Mobile and Western Line" (Jazz Gillum) by Big Bill Broonzy^[532]
• "Mobile Line, The" by Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band
• "Molly on a Trolley" (William Jerome, Jean Schwartz) by Vernon Dalhart & Betsy Lane Shepherd (1922)^[533]
• "Monday Morning Choo Choo" (Rich Dodson) by The Stampeders
• "Monkey and the Engineer, The" (Jesse Fuller) by Jesse Fuller, The Grateful Dead, Dave Rawlings Machine
• "Moose-Turd Pie" by Utah Phillips
• "Mormon Engineer, The" (Oscar Brand) by Oscar Brand
• "Morning Train" by Peter Paul & Mary, Sensational Nightingales
• "Morning Train (9 to 5)" by Sheena Easton
• "Morningtown Ride" (Malvina Reynolds) by Charlotte Diamond, Brendan Grace, The Limeliters, The Seekers, Raffi, Malvina Reynolds, Susie Tallman
• "Move Over" (Irving Berlin), published 1914^[283]
• "Mr. Conductor" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[517]
• "Mr. Engineer" (Jimmy Martin, "Big" Paul Williams) by J.D. Crowe & the New South, Jimmy Martin, Tony Rice
• "M.T.A." ( Jacqueline Steiner, Bess Lomax Hawes) by The Kingston Trio
• "Murdertrain a Comin'" (Brendon Small) by Dethklok
• "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" (Leroy Preston) by Rosanne Cash
• "My Baby's Gone" (Gary Atkinson, Hazel Houser, Joe Josea) by Blind Willie McTell^[534]
• "My Cutey's Due at Two-to-Two Today" (Albert Von Tilzer, Leo Robin)^[535] by Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer (with Billy May & His Orchestra),^[536] Firehouse Five Plus Two,^[537] Betty Hutton,^[538] Don Neely's Royal Society Jazz Orchestra,^[539] Ted Weems Orchestra (1926)^[535]
• "My Love Affair with Trains" (Dolly Parton) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "My My Metrocard" (Le Tigre) by Le Tigre^[540]
• "My Rough and Rowdy Ways" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "My Saviour's Train" (Charlie Monroe) by Charlie Monroe^[541]
• "My Wife's Gone to the Country (Hurrah! Hurrah!)" (George Whiting, Irving Berlin), published 1909^[283]
• "Mysteries of a Hobo's Life" (T-Bone Slim) by Cisco Houston^[542]
• "Mystery Pacific" (Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli) by Django Reinhardt & The Quintette du Hot Club de France (1937)
• "Mystery Train" (Junior Parker, Sam Phillips) by Jerry Garcia and Merle Saunders, Emmylou Harris, Ronnie Hawkins, Sleepy LaBeef, The Neville Brothers, Elvis Presley, Dwight Yoakam, Neil Young

N

• "Navigator" (Philip Gaston) by The Pogues^[543]
• "Never Did Like That Train" (Murray McLauchlan) by Murray McLauchlan^[544]
• "Never Gonna Stop This Train (James Keelaghan) by James Keelaghan^[545]
• "Never Marry a Railroad Man" (Robbie van Leeuwen) by Shocking Blue^[546]
• "New Delhi Freight Train" (Terry Allen) by Terry Allen, Little Feat, Ricky Nelson^[547]
• "New Frisco Train, The" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[70]
• "New Market Wreck, The" (Traditional) by Mike Seeger^[548]
• "New Orleans Streamline" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[70]
• "New Railroad" (Traditional) by Crooked Still^[549]
• "New Rider Train" by The Stonemans, Raffi
• "New River Train" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart (1925),^[550] Kelly Harrell (1925),^[551] Frank Hutchison^[163]
• "New Train", separate songs, artist followed by composer: Paul "Earthquake" Pena with Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders (Paul "Earthquake" Pena);^[552] John Prine (John Prine)^[553]
• "New York City Serenade" (Bruce Springsteen) by Bruce Springsteen^[554]
• "Nickel Plate Road 759" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[167]
• "Night the Trains Broke Down" by (P. F. Sloan) by P. F. Sloan^[555]
• "Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The" (Robbie Robertson) by Allman Brothers Band, Joan Baez, The Band, Big Country,^[556] The Black Crowes,^[557] John Denver, Tanya Tucker,^[556] Tammy Wynette
• "Night Time in the Switching Yard" by Warren Zevon
• "Night Train" (James Forrest, Lewis Simpkins, Oscar Washington) by Ray Anthony & His Big Band, The Boogie Kings, James Brown, The Champs, Buck Clayton All Stars, Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Vassar Clements, King Curtis, Wild Bill Davis, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Lou Donaldson, Teddy Edwards, Enoch Light, Jimmy Forrest, Tony Fruscella, Great Jazz Trio, Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orchestra, Al Grey, Wynonie Harris, Reverend Horton Heat, Ted Heath, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Eddie Jefferson, Jonah Jones, Roger Kellaway Trio, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Leon McAuliffe & His Cimmaron Boys, Christian McBride, Jay McShann, Lucky Millinder, Buddy Morrow, Oliver Nelson, Joe Newman, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Oscar Peterson Trio, Louis Prima, Sir Douglas Quintet, Felix Slatkin, Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, The Sonics, The Ventures, Stevie Winwood, World Saxophone Quartet. Other songs with this title written and performed by: Tab Benoit, LTJ Bukem, Bruce Cockburn, Antonio Forcione, Jonah Jones, Rickie Lee Jones, Amos Lee, Looptroop, Wynton Marsalis, Bill Morrissey, Lee "Scratch" Perry & Dub Syndicate, The Timewriter, Tindersticks, Visage^[558]
• "Night Train of Valhalla" (John Fahey) by John Fahey^[559]
• "Night Train to Lorca" by The Pogues
• "Night Train to Memphis" (Harry Beasley Smith, Marvin Hughes, Owen Bradley) by Roy Acuff, Spade Cooley, Floyd Cramer, Bing Crosby, King Curtis, Jimmy Dean, Little Jimmy Dickens, Duane Eddy, Everclear, Red Foley, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Johnny Hodges, David Holt, Grandpa Jones, Sleepy LaBeef, Jerry Lee Lewis, Joe Maphis, Benny Martin, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, New Coon Creek Girls, Roy Orbison & Faron Young, Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Carl Perkins, Webb Pierce, Carl Smith, Jimmy Sturr, Mel Tillis, Hank Williams, Jr.^[560]
• "Night Train to Mundo Fine" (Ray Gregory) by John Carradine^[561]
• "Night Trip to Buffalo" by American Quartet^[562]
• "Night Trains" (Skewdriver) by Skrewdriver
• 'Nightrain' by Guns N' Roses
• "Nighttrain, The" by Kadoc
• "Nine Pound Hammer" (Merle Travis) by Chet Atkins, Norman Blake, The Beau Brummels, Johnny Cash, Cephas & Wiggins, Vassar Clements, Flatt & Scruggs, Tennessee Ernie Ford, David Grisman & Jerry Garcia, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Osborne Brothers, John Prine, Tony Rice, Tom Rush, The Stanley Brothers, Merle Travis, Townes Van Zandt, Doc & Merle Watson^[563]
• "No Leaf Clover" (James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich) by Metallica & San Francisco Symphony^[564]
• "No More Trains to Ride" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "No One Takes the Train Anymore" (Chris Waters) by Holly Dunn, Bonnie Guitar
• "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Anymore" (Harry Nilsson) by Harry Nilsson^[565]
• "Nonstop to Nowhere" (Taime Downe, Brent Muscat, Eric Stacy, Greg Steele) by Faster Pussycat
• "Northbound" (Don Walker) by Cold Chisel^[566]
• "Northshore Train" (Heidi Berry) by Heidi Berry^[567]
• "Nothing Special" (Pat Fish) by The Jazz Butcher
• "Nowhere Fast" (Johnny Marr, Morrissey) by The Smiths^[568]
• "Number 12 Train" (Josh White) by Josh White^[569]
• "Number 9 Train" by Tarheel Slim

O

• "Oil Tanker Train (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[570]
• "Old Buddy, Goodnight" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[167]
• "Old Circus Train Turn-Around Blues, The" (Duke Ellington) by Duke Ellington & Ella Fitzgerald^[571]
• "Old Gospel Train" (Eugene Sims) by Dorothy Love Coates
• "Old Iron Trail" by Boxcar Willie
• "Old Ruben" by Wade Mainer & Sons of the Mountaineers
• "Old Train" by Tony Rice Unit, Seldom Scene
• "Old Train 29" (Traditional) by Geoff Muldaur
• "On a Cold Winter's Night", see "Wreck of the Number Nine"
• "On a Slow Train through Arkansaw" (Al Bernard) by Al Bernard (1925)^[572]
• "On the 5:15" (Henry I. Marshall, Stanley Murphy), published 1914,^[573] by American Quartet, recorded 1915^[574]
• "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe" (Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren) by Tommy Dorsey, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer
• "On the Evening Train", see "The Evening Train"
• "On the Honeymoon Express" (James Kendis) by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (1914)^[575]
• "On the Southbound" (Allen Reynolds) by Lester Flatt, Dickey Lee, Charley Pride, Mac Wiseman
• "On the Train" by Janis Ian^[576]
• "One After 909" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) by The Beatles, Steve Forbert, Laibach, Rick Nelson, Willie Nelson, Carmen Rasmusen, Helen Reddy, The Smithereens
• "One More Ride" (Bob Nolan) by Johnny Cash, Riders in the Sky, Roy Rogers, Marty Stuart, Hank Snow, The Sons of the Pioneers
• "One Toke Over the Line" (Mike Brewer, Tom Shipley) by Brewer & Shipley
• "Only a Hobo" (Bob Dylan) by Hamilton Camp, Hazel Dickens, Bob Dylan, Jonathan Edwards, Lucky 7, Augie Meyers, Michel Montecrossa, Totta Näslund & Kajsa Grytt, The Seldom Scene, Rod Stewart. Additional song with this title: (Woody Guthrie) by Woody Guthrie.^[577]
• "Orange Blossom Special" (Ervin T. Rouse) by Chet Atkins, Hoyt Axton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, J.D. Crowe, Charlie Daniels, Electric Light Orchestra, Fairport Convention, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Flatt & Scruggs, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Doug Kershaw, Bill Monroe, The New Lost City Ramblers, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Buck Owens, Dolly Parton,^[578] Seatrain,^[579] Hank Snow, The Stanley Brothers, The String Cheese Incident, Marty Stuart, Hank Williams, Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys^[578]
• "Orient Express", separate songs, composers followed by artists: (René Aubry) Christophe Guiot & René Aubry; (Boris Kovač) Boris Kovač; (Christian Burchard, Roman Bunka) Embryo (band); (Jon Camp) Renaissance; (Marc Chantereau, Pierre-Alain Dahan, Slim Pezin) Voyage; (Moreno Dainese) Skauch; (DeBarge) Natasha St-Pier; (Frenchy and the Punk) Frenchy and the Punk; (Rick Hahn) Spies; (Jean Michel Jarre) Jean Michel Jarre; (Jay Jay Johnson) Jay Jay Johnson; (Karunesh) Karunesh; (Ennio Morricone, film score) Ennio Morricone & Solisti E Orchestre Del Cinema Italiano, Allen Toussaint Orchestra; (Gregg Rolie) Gregg Rolie; (Fuat Saka) Fuat Saka; (Paloma San Basilio) Paloma San Basilio; (Scott, Wood) Sidney Torch Orchestra; (Dan Siegel) Dan Siegel; (Michael Weiss) Michael Weiss; (Joe Zawinul) Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orchestra, Joe Zawinul^[580]
• "Out of the Races and on to the Tracks" by The Rapture

P

• "Pan American" (Hank Williams) by Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie, Dave Dudley, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, The Seldom Scene, Hank Snow, Larry Sparks, Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr.^[581]
• "Pan American Boogie" (Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore) by Ray Campi, The Delmore Brothers, Wayne Raney & Brownie McGhee, Robin & Linda Williams^[582]
• "Panama Limited" (Bukka White) by Mike Cross, Robert Johnson, Doug MacLeod, Tom Rush, Bukka White^[583]
• "Pan American Man" (Cliff Carlisle) by Cliff Carlisle^[584]
• "Party Train" by GAP Band
• "Passage to Bangkok, A" by Rush
• "Passin' Train" by Sawyer Brown
• "Passing of the Train" by Rhonda Vincent
• "Pat Works on the Railroad" (Traditional) by Joe Glazer^[161]
• "Peace Train" (Cat Stevens) by Jann Arden, Zain Bhikha, Mitchel Forman, Sam Harris, Richie Havens, Lincoln Mayorga, Melanie, Michael Monroe, Hugo Montenegro, Dolly Parton, Johnny "Hammond" Smith, Cat Stevens, The String Cheese Incident, 10,000 Maniacs, The Ventures, Don Williams
• "Pennsylvania Sunrise" (David Mallett) by David Mallett
• "People Get Ready" (Curtis Mayfield) by Jeff Beck, The Doors, Burning Spear, Chambers Brothers, Aretha Franklin, The Impressions, Curtis Mayfield, The Meters Rod Stewart, Yellowman
• "Per Spoor (Kedeng Kedeng)", Dutch-English translation "By Rail (train sounds)", (Guus Meeuwis) by Guus Meeuwis^[585]
• "Petticoat Junction Theme" (Curt Massey, Paul Henning) by Flatt & Scruggs
• "Phoebe Snow" (Utah Phillips) by Bryan Bowers, Utah Phillips^[167]
• "Play a Train Song" (Todd Snider) by Robert Earl Keen, Jr., Todd Snider
• "Please Mr. Conductor Don't Put Me Off the Train" (J. Fred Helf, E.P. Moran), published 1898^[2]
• "Poor Little Liza, Poor Girl" by Homer & Jethro
• "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" (Traditional) by Ewan MacColl, Authority Zero, The Kelly Family, Luke Kelly, Shane MacGowan, The Pogues, The Tossers
• "Poor Poor Pitiful Me" (Warren Zevon) by Linda Ronstadt, Warren Zevon
• "Porters on a Pullman Train" (Charles D. Crandall), published 1880,^[586] by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan, 1923^[587]
• "Poverty Train" (Laura Nyro) by Laura Nyro^[588]
• "Pride of Alabama" (Benny Galloway) by Yonder Mountain String Band
• "Princess of the Night" (Biff Byford, Steve Dawson, Pete Gill, Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn) by Saxon
• "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) by Chuck Berry, Grateful Dead, Elvis Presley
• "Pullman Porter's Ball" (John Stromberg) by Metropolitan Orchestra (1901)^[589]
• "Pullman Porter Blues" by Clarence Williams, 1922^[298]
• "Pullman Porters Parade" (Maurice Abrahams, Ren G. May), published 1913^[590]
• "Put Me on a Train Back to Texas" by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

Q

• "Queen of the Rails" (Utah Phillips) by Utah Phillips^[167]

R

• "Ragtime Engineer, The" (Sam M. Lewis, Clay Smith), published 1912^[591]
• "Rail, op. 57" (Wilfred Josephs), soundtrack for Rail, 1967 documentary for British Transport Films directed by Geoffrey Jones^{[494][592][593]}
• "Rail Rhythm" by Cab Calloway^[86]
• "Rail Road March, The" (Charles Meineke), copyrighted July 3, 1828, see "The Carrollton March"^[1]
• "Rail Song, The" by Adrian Belew
• "Railroad", separate songs, artists followed by composers: The Bee Gees (Billy Lawrie, Maurice Gibb),^[594] Grand Funk Railroad (Mark Farner,^[595] Lee Hazlewood (Lee Hazlewood),^[596] Lonely Drifter Karen (Tanja Frinta, Marc Meliá Sobrevias),^[597] Melanie (Melanie Safka),^[598] Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues,^[599] Status Quo (Francis Rossi, Kenny Young),^[600] Piero Umiliani (Piero Umiliani),^[601] The Zutons (The Zutons)^[602]
• "Railroad Angels" by Felix Pappalardi
• "Railroad Baby" (Justine Electra) by Justine Electra
• "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 & Doc Watson, Cisco Houston, Frank Hovington, Frank Hutchison, Taj Mahal, J. E. Mainer & His Mountaineers, Roger McGuinn, The New Christy Minstrels,^[603] Riley Puckett,^[604] Hobart Smith,^[603] Roba Stanley, Bob Stanley & Bill Peterson,^[604] Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers, Andrew Bird, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee^[603]
• "Railroad Blues", separate songs, artists followed by composers: Beastie Boys (Beastie Boys);^[605] Woody Guthrie (Woody Guthrie, instrumental adapted from traditional "Cripple Creek");^[606] Wayne Hancock, 2001 (Wayne Hancock);^[607] Roy Bargy & Benson Orchestra of Chicago, 1920,^[608][609] Luckey Roberts, 1958 (Luckey Roberts);^[610] Louis Armstrong, 1953,^[611] Trixie Smith, 1925 (Trixie Smith);^[612] Norman Blake, 1977 (Traditional);^[613] Townes Van Zandt (Townes Van Zandt)^[614]
• "Railroad Boomer, The" (Carson Robison, 1929)^[615] by Carson Robison & Frank Luther;^[616] recorded as "Boomer's Story" by Ry Cooder, North Mississippi Allstars;^[617] recorded as "The Rambler" by Cisco Houston^[153]
• "Railroad Boy" (Traditional) by Joan Baez, The Blues Project, The Goldebriars, Gov't Mule
• "Railroad Bum" by Tex Morton
• "Railroad Bum, A" by Jim Reeves
• "Railroad Corral, The" (Traditional, credited to Joseph Mills Hanson, 1904)^[618] by Rex Allen, Don Edwards, Juni Fisher, Michael Martin Murphy, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Gregg Smith Singers^[619]
• "Railroad Days", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Poco (Paul Cotton); Bob Seger (Bob Seger)
• "Railroad Earth", by Railroad Earth
• "Railroad Jim" (Nat Vincent) by Edward Meeker, 1916^[620]
• "Railroad Lady" (Jimmy Buffett, Jerry Jeff Walker) by Jimmy Buffett, J.D. Crowe & The New South, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Todd Snider, Jerry Jeff Walker
• "Railroad Man" by Eels
• "Railroad Man" by Murray McLauchlan
• "Railroad Man Blues", separate songs with this title: Clifford Gibson, New Orleans Willie Jackson
• "Railroad Police Blues" by Memphis Minnie
• "Railroad Porter Blues" by Sylvester Weaver, circa 1928^[298]
• "Railroad Section Gang, The" by Peerless Quartet (1910)^[621]
• "Railroad Song" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Railroad Song, The" by Jim Croce
• "Railroad Steel" (Dan Baird) by The Georgia Satellites
• "Railroad Tracks" (Weldon Bonner) by Juke Boy Bonner
• "Railroad Tramp" (unknown) by Dock Boggs^[486]
• "Railroad Worksong" by Notting Hillbillies
• "Railroading on the Great Divide" (Sara Carter Bayes, 1952)^[622] by The Carter Family, Bill Clifton, New Lost City Ramblers^[623]
• "Railroadin' and Gamblin'" (Traditional) by Uncle Dave Macon, New Lost City Ramblers^[624]
• "Railroadin' Some" (Henry Thomas) by Rory Block,^[625] Henry Thomas^[158]
• "Railroads and Riverboats" by Jim Croce
• "Raised by the Railroad Line" by The Seldom Scene
• "Raising Steam" by Jethro Tull
• "Rambler, The" (Traditional, see "Railroad Boomer") by Cisco Houston^[153][616]
• "Ramblin' Man" (Hank Williams) by Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan,^[626] Cat Power,^[627] Hackensaw Boys, Ronnie Hawkins, Frankie Laine, Kieran Kane,^[626] The Residents,^[628] Del Shannon, Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr.,^[626] Robin & Linda Williams, Robin & Linda Williams,^[629] Yat-Kha, Steve Young^[626]
• "Ramblin' on My Mind" (Robert Johnson) by Tab Benoit, Rory Block, Del Bromham, The Chesterfield Kings, Eric Clapton, Arthur Crudup, Peter Green, Robert Johnson, Robert Lockwood, Jr., John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Lucinda Williams, Jesse Colin Young^[630]
• "Rambling Blues" by Johnny Shines
• "Rambling Hobo" (Traditional) by Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley^[631]
• "Reckless Motorman, The" (Traditional) by Mike Seeger^[548]
• "Red and Green Signal Lights" by G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter^[632]
• "Red Ball to Natchez" by Delmore Brothers and Wayne Raney
• "Red Streamliner" (Bill Payne, Fran Tate) by Little Feat^[633]
• "Refrigerator Car" by Spin Doctors
• "Reuben" by Rob Ickes
• "Reuben's Train", also titled "Ruben's Train" (Traditional) by Ray Charles, The Deighton Family, The Dillards, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Tony Furtado, Beppe Gambetta & Tony Trischka, Josh Graves, The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, Michael Hurley, Harry Manx, Andy Irvine's Mozaik (with Bruce Molsky), Frank Proffitt, Sparky & Rhonda Rucker, The Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, Billy Strange & Don Parmley, Doc Watson, Doc & Merle Watson, Eric Weissberg & Marshall Brickman, Patrick Sky^[634]
• "Ride That Train" (Greg Cartwright, Oblivians) by Oblivians
• "Ride the Train" by Alabama
• "Ride This Train" by Altar Boys (Steve Griffith), The Canton Spirituals (Harvey Watkins, Harvey Watkins, Jr.), Mel McDaniel
• "Ride Through the Night" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) by Percy Faith, Dave Grusin, Frankie Laine, Carol Lawrence
• "Ridin on the Cottonbelt" by Johnny Cash
• "Ridin' with the Driver" by Motörhead
• "Riding Down from Bangor" by Louis Shreve Osborne
• "Riding in de Limited Train" (Frank Dumont), published 1880^[635]
• "Riding on a Railroad" by James Taylor
• "Riding on That Train 45" (Traditional, version of "Train 45") by Wade Mainer & Zeke Morris, New Lost City Ramblers^[636]
• "Riding on the Dummy Line" (Sam Booth, F.G. Carnes), published 1885^[637]
• "Riding on the L&N" (Lionel Hampton/Dan Burley, 1946) by Dr. Feelgood, John Mayall, John Mayall & Paul Butterfield, Nine Below Zero, Steamhammer^[638]
• "Riding That Midnight Train" by Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson
• "Right Track Wrong Train" by Cyndi Lauper
• "Rise and Fall of the Steam Railroad, The" (Eldon Rathburn) by Eldon Rathburn^[229]
• "Roamer, The" (Traditional) by Cisco Houston^[153]
• "Rock Chalk, Jayhawk", chant from the University of Kansas (1866)^[639]
• "Rock Island Blues" (Furry Lewis) by Furry Lewis^[640]
• "Rock Island Line" (Traditional, often attributed to Lead Belly)^[641] by Long John Baldry, The Beatles, Harry Belafonte, Rory Block, Brothers Four, Johnny Cash, Don Cornell, Dick Curless, Bobby Darin, Lonnie Donegan, Snooks Eaglin, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Stan Freberg, Gateway Singers, Johnny Horton, Grandpa Jones, Journeymen, Chris Thomas King, Lead Belly, Mano Negra, Roger McGuinn, Odetta, Carl Perkins, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Rooftop Singers, Pete Seeger, Ringo Starr, The Tarriers, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, The Travellers, The Weavers, Dan Zanes^{[641][642][643]}
• "Rock 'N Roll Train" (Angus Young, Malcolm Young) by AC/DC
• "Rocket, The" Fred Eaglesmith
• "Roll On Buddy" (Traditional) by Roy Acuff, Kenny Baker & Josh Graves, Harry Belafonte, Norman Blake, Charlie Bowman, Sam Bush, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Raymond Fairchild, The Greenbriar Boys & Bob Dylan, Roscoe Holcomb, John Jackson, The Kentucky Colonels, Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals, McGee Brothers, Bruce Molsky, Bill Monroe, The New Lost City Ramblers, Odetta, Red Smiley & The Bluegrass Cut-Ups, Ralph Stanley, Doc & Merle Watson, The Wilburn Brothers, Vern Williams, The Wood Brothers^[644]
• "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms" (Lester Flatt) by Roy Acuff, Boxcar Willie, Glen Campbell, Roy Clark, David Alan Coe, Billy "Crash" Craddock, Guy Davis, Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, Flatt & Scruggs, The Grascals, Lloyd Green, Jack Greene & Jeannie Seely, George Jones, Sleepy LaBeef, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Rose Maddox, Jimmy Martin, 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^[645][646]
• "'Roll Roll Train" by Hasil Adkins
• "Roots Train" by Junior Murvin
• "Roundhouse Blues" by Moby Grape
• "Roust-a-bout" by Flatt & Scruggs
• "R R Express" by Rose Royce
• "Rude Boy Train" by Desmond Dekker
• "Rudy" by Supertramp
• "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);^[647] Vernon Dalhart (Robert E. Massey; Harry Warren, Carson Robison);^[648] 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); Randy Travis (Jerry Steve Smith, Larry Gatlin); Dale Watson (Dale Watson)^[647]
• "Runaway Trains" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

S

• "Sad Old Train" (Donna Hughes) ) by The Seldom Scene
• "Saint-Côme Express" (Daniel Lavoie) by Daniel Lavoie
• "Salvation Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Carl Story (John Hager); The Specials (Lloyd Chalmers)
• "San Francisco Bound" (Irving Berlin), published 1913^[649]
• "Sandy Hollow Line" (Duke Tritton, 1937 poem, John Dengate, music) by John Dengate
• "Santa Claus Is Comin' (In a Boogie Woogie Choo Choo Train)" (Steve Ripley, Walt Richmond) by The Tractors
• "Santa Fe Blues" (Traditional) by Lightnin' Hopkins
• "Saturday Train, The" (Johan Angergård, Niklas Angergård) by Acid House Kings
• "Scenic Railway, for piano, H. 115" (Arthur Honegger) by Jean-François Antonioli^[650][651]
• "Scholar, The (or The Train to Sligo)" by Midnight Well
• "Section Gang Blues" (Texas Alexander) by Texas Alexander^[652]\
• "Send My Body" (Randy Travis) by Randy Travis
• "Sentimental Journey" by Les Brown, Billy Vaughn
• "Shadows on a Dime" (Ferron) by Ferron^[653]
• "She Caught the Katy (And Left Me a Mule to Ride)" by Taj Mahal & Yank Rachell
• "She Caught the Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Big Bill Broonzy (Big Bill Broonzy),^[532] UB40 (Joe Monsano)^[654]
• "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" (Traditional) by Vernon Dalhart (1925),^[655] Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters (1927), Uncle Dave Macon & John McGhee (1928),^[656] Carson Robison & Frank Luther (1928),^[657] Pete Seeger (1953)^[658] Gid Tanner & His Skillet Lickers (1927), Henry Whitter (1924)^[656]
• "Shuffle Off to Buffalo" (Al Dubin, Harry Warren) by The Boswell Sisters & Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Ray Ellis, Alice Faye, Ruby Keeler, Hal Kemp, Cub Koda, Buddy Morrow^[659]
• "Silver Rails" (Jack Newman) by Hank Snow^[170]
• "Silver Train" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) by The Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter
• "Silverton, The" by C. W. McCall
• "Six O' Clock Train and a Girl with Green Eyes, The" (John Hartford) by John Hartford^[660]
• "Six Wheel Driver" (Richard Dehr, Terry Gilkyson, Frank Miller) by The Easy Riders
• "Six-Five Special" by Don Lang & His Frantic Five
• "Skip Town" by Aesop Rock
• "Skyliner" (Charlie Barnet) by Charlie Barnet (1944)
• "Sleeping Monkey" by Phish
• "Sleeping On a Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Monster Movie (Christian Savill, Monster Movie, Sean Hewson); Susan Werner (Susan Werner)
• "Slow Movin' Outlaw" by Waylon Jennings
• "Slow Moving Freight Train" by Hugh Moffatt
• "Slow Train" by Flanders & Swann, Soul Stirrers, The Staple Singers
• "Slow Train" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan
• "Slow Train Through Georgia" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake
• "Slow Train to Dawn" (Matt Johnson) by The The
• "Slow Train to Paradise" by Tavares (1978)
• "Slow Train to Nowhere" (John Mayall) by John Mayall^[661]
• "Smoke Along the Track" by Stonewall Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris
• "Smokestack Lightning" (Chester Burnett) by The Animals, Edgar Broughton Band, Eric Clapton, The Electric Prunes, Ian Gillan, Grateful Dead, Green on Red, John Hammond, Jr., Howlin' Wolf, Henry Kaiser, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Manfred Mann, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Lucky Peterson, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Fenton Robinson, Jimmy Rogers, Soundgarden, George Thorogood & the Destroyers, Watermelon Slim, Muddy Waters, Howard Werth, Chris Whitley, Widespread Panic, The Yardbirds
• "Snow" (Johnny Hawksworth), soundtrack for 1963 documentary for British Transport Films directed by Geoffrey Jones^[662][663]
• "So Many Roads, So Many Trains" (Marshall Paul) by Foghat, John Hammond, Jr., Slim Harpo, Cub Koda, Otis Rush^[664]
• "Some of my Best Friends are Trains" by The Waterboys
• "Something About Trains" by Jane Siberry
• "Sonderzug nach Pankow (Special Train to Pankow)" (Udo Lindenberg) by Udo Lindenberg
• "Soo Line Train" by Kevin Brown (group) Corndaddy
• "Soul Train" by The Manhattans, The Three Degrees, Mary Wells
• "Southbound" by Flatt & Scruggs, Hank Snow, Doc Watson^[74]
• "Southbound Passenger Train" (Traditional) by Doc Watson
• "Southbound Train" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy, Davy Graham, Koerner, Ray & Glover, Muddy Waters. Other songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Crosby, Stills & Nash (Graham Nash), Jon Foreman (Jon Foreman), Nanci Griffith (Julie Gold), Mountain (Norman Landsberg, John Ventura, Leslie West), The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Dennis Linde)^[665]
• "Southern Blues, The" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy, 1935^[666][667]
• "Southern Cannonball" by Jimmie Rodgers
• "Southern Pacific" by John Scofield, Neil Young
• "Southern Pacifica" by Josh Ritter
• "Southern Railroad Blues" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake^[668]
• "Southern Streamline" by John Fogerty
• "Southern Train" (Sonny McGhee) by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
• "Spanish Train" by Chris DeBurgh
• "Special Agent (Railroad Police Blues)" (Sleepy John Estees, 1938) by Sleepy John Estes^[669]
• "Special Streamline" (Bukka White) by Bukka White^[124]
• "Spell of a Freight Train" by Ricochet
• "Spike Driver Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt, Doc Watson
• "Starlight on the Rails" (Utah Phillips) by Flatt & Scruggs, Utah Phillips, Rosalie Sorrels^[670]
• "Station" by Dr. Dog
• "Station Man" by Fleetwood Mac
• "Station to Station" by David Bowie
• "Steam" by Johnny Horton
• "Steam Engine" by Monkees
• "Steam Engine Polka" by Johann Strauss
• "Steel A-Goin' Down" (Buell Kazee) by Buell Kazee, Jim Smoak^[671]
• "Steel Drivin Man" by Buddy Merrill, Denzel Washington
• "Steel Rail Blues" by Gordon Lightfoot^[672]
• "Steel Rails" by Alison Krauss
• "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^[673][674]
• "Stimela" by Hugh Masekela
• "Stop and Look for the Train" by Andrew Jenkins
• "Stop Rockin' That Train" (Ivory Joe Hunter) by Ivory Joe Hunter^[675]
• "Stop That Train" (Peter Tosh) by Clint Eastwood & General Saint, Jerry Garcia, The Meters, The String Cheese Incident, Peter Tosh, The Wailers^[676]
• "Stop the Train Conductor" (Snooky Pryor) by Snooky Pryor
• "Stop This Train", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Kevin Ayers (Kevin Ayers)^[677] John Mayer (John Mayer)^[678]
• "Strangers on a Train" by New Riders of the Purple Sage
• "Streamlined Cannonball" (Roy Acuff) by Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, The Browns, Jerry Garcia, The Limeliters, Earl Scruggs, Carl Smith, Hank Snow, Doc Watson (with Flatt & Scruggs), Mac Wiseman^[679]
• "Streetcar Blues" (Sleepy John Estes) by Sleepy John Estes^[680]
• "Subway Joe" by Joe Bataan
• "Subway Train" by New York Dolls
• "Subways" by Urban Verbs
• "Subways Are for Sleeping" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green)
• "Sunnyland Train" (Elmore James) by Elmore James^[681]
• "Sunset Limited" (Harry J. Lincoln), published 1910^[682]
• "Sunshine Special" (Blind Lemon Jefferson) by Blind Lemon Jefferson^[683]
• "Super Chief by Count Basie^[86]
• "Super Rifle (Balkan Express)" by Gogol Bordello^[684]
• "Sylvestre Matuschka" by Lard

T

• "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) by Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Ray Bryant, Delta Rhythm Boys, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Salena Jones, Gene Krupa, Charles Mingus, James Moody, Tito Puente, Zoot Sims^[685] Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys,^[686] Teddy Wilson^[685]
• "Talkin' John Henry" by Taj Mahal
• "Tallahassee" (Frank Loesser) by Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters, Alan Ladd & Dorothy Lamour, Frank Loesser, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore & Woody Herman^[687]
• "Tell the Engineer" (Fred Eaglesmith) by Fred Eaglesmith^[688]
• "Tennessee Central No. 9" by Roy Acuff
• "Terminus" (Ron Grainer), soundtrack from 1961 documentary by John Schlesinger for British Transport Films^[494][689]
• "Terrapin Station" by Grateful Dead
• "Terror Train" by Demons and Wizards
• "Texas and Pacific" by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five^[86]
• "Texas Eagle" (Steve Earle) by Steve Earle & The Del McCoury Band^[690]
• "Texas Silver Zephyr" (Red Steagall) by Hank Snow,^[170] Red Steagall
• "Texas, 1947" (Guy Clark) by Johnny Cash,^[691] Guy Clark,^[692] Robert Earl Keen, Jr.^[693]
• "Texas Trilogy, Part 2: Trainride" (Steven Fromholz) by Steven Fromholz,^[694] Lyle Lovett^[695]
• "That Memphis Train" by Grandpa Jones
• "That Old Train Whistle" by Smothers Brothers
• "That Railroad Rag" (Nat Vincent, Ed Bimberg)^[696] by Edward Meeker (1911),^[697] Walter Van Brunt (1911)^[698] Collins and Harlan^[699]
• "That Train" by Jerry Butler
• "That Train Don't Stop Here" (Cesar Rosas, Leroy Preston) by Los Lobos
• "There's a Little Box of Pine on the 7:29" (Joseph Ettlinger, Billy Hill, 1931) by Asa Martin & Doc Roberts, Hank Snow, Mac Wiseman^[700]
• "There's a Train" by Holmes Brothers^[701]
• "The Train Is Coming" (Ken Boothe) by Ken Boothe, Shaggy w/Ken Boothe, UB40
• "There's Lots of Stations on My Railroad Track" (Joe McCarthy, Leo Edwards) by Ada Jones & Billy Murray (1914),^[702] Ed Morton (1912)^[703]
• "Third Class Wait Here" by Slim Dusty
• "Third Rail" (Chris Difford, Glenn Tilbrook) by Squeeze
• "This City Never Sleeps" (Annie Lennox, David A. Stewart) by The Eurythmics
• "This Train" (Traditional, also recorded as "This Train Is Bound for Glory")^[704] by Louis Armstrong, Big Bill Broonzy, Hylo Brown, Alice Coltrane, Steve Dawson, Sandy Denny, D.O.A., Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Duncan, Raymond Fairchild, Bob Gibson, Golden Gate Quartet, Cisco Houston, David Houston, Janis Ian, Mahalia Jackson, Ella Jenkins, Sleepy LaBeef, The Limeliters, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Ziggy Marley, Mason Dixon, Carlton Pearson, Peter, Paul & Mary, Utah Phillips, Edmundo Ros, Bob Rowe, Pete Seeger, The Seekers, Hank Snow, Billy Strange, Jack Teagarden, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Hank Thompson, Randy Travis, The Verlaines, Bunny Wailer, Elder Roma Wilson, Buckwheat Zydeco^[705] Other songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Jimmy Durante (Jackie Barnett), Julie Silver (Stanley Dural, Jr., Julie Silver), Ricky Nelson (Rick Nelson)
• "This Train Don't Stop There Anymore" (Elton John, Bernie Taupin) by Elton John^[705]
• "This Train Keeps Rolling Along" (Jimmy Ibbotson, Vince Melamed, Jim Photoglo) by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• "This Train Revised" by Indigo Girls
• "This Train Will Be Taking No Passengers" by Augie March
• "This Train's a Clean Train" (Traditional, related to "This Train") by Joe Glazer^[161]
• "Through Train Blues" by Tampa Red
• "Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down" (Clarence Williams) by Bessie Smith^[706]
• "Ticket Agent Blues" (Blind Willie McTell) by Blind Willie McTell^[707]
• "Time Between Trains" (Susan Werner) by Susan Werner
• "Timetable Blues" (Traditional), sheet music published 1911,^[708] by Captain Appleblossom (1929),^[709] New Lost City Ramblers (1968)^[708]
• "To Morrow" (Lew Sully), published 1898 as "I Want to Go to Morrow",^[710] by The Kingston Trio
• "Tolono" by Bruce Utah Phillips
• "Tons of Steel" (Brent Mydland) by Grateful Dead
• "Too Too Train Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy^[711]
• "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye)" (Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo), published 1922,^[712] by Pearl Bailey, Tony Bennett, Mel Blanc, Bloodstone, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Ted Heath, Eddie Howard, Al Jolson, Spike Jones, Brenda Lee, George Lewis) & Don Ewell, Jerry Lee Lewis, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Wayne Newton, Kid Ory, Buddy Rich, Ted Fio Rito, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Brent Spiner, Hop Wilson, Jackie Wilson^[713]
• "Toy Train" by John Edmond
• "Track 360" (Duke Ellington), also titled Trains, by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
• "Train, The" (Jerry Kasenetz) by The 1910 Fruitgum Company
• "Train" (Brad Arnold, Chris Henderson, Matt Roberts, Todd Harrell) by 3 Doors Down
• "Train" by Blue Rodeo
• "Train" by Goldfrapp
• "Train" (John Cobbett) by Hammers of Misfortune
• "Train" by Leo Sayer
• "Train" by Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
• "Train" (Sonya Kitchell) by Sonya Kitchell
• "Train" (Vonat) by Muzsikás
• "Train" by Seasick Steve
• "Le Train" by Vilain Pingouin (on 1990 self-titled album)
• "Train, The" (Lord Buckley) by Lord Buckley
• "Train, The" by Tim Buckley^[714]
• "Train, The" by Outkast
• "Train #10" (Tim McGraw, Brad Warren, Brett Warren) by Tim McGraw
• "Train 1262" (Carson Robison), cover of Robison's "The Freight Wreck at Altoona", by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs^[715]
• "Train 45" (Traditional, related to "Reuben's Train"/"900 Miles")^[716] by The Country Gentlemen, J.D. Crowe, Benton Flippen, G.B. Grayson & Henry Whitter,^[632] Woody Guthrie, Woody Guthrie,^[488] Jimmy Martin, Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals,^[632] Bill Monroe,^[716] The New Lost City Ramblers,^[632] Sonny Osborne, Earl Scruggs,^[716] The Stanley Brothers, Marty Stuart, Mac Wiseman^[632]
• "Train A-Travelin'" (Bob Dylan) by Bob Dylan, under the pseudonym Blind Boy Grunt^[717]
• "Train Across Ukraine" (Annette Ezekiel Kogan) by Golem^[718]
• "Train Blues" (Woody Guthrie) by Woody Guthrie & Sonny Terry^[606]
• "Train Bound for Glory Land" (Benny Galloway) by Yonder Mountain String Band
• "Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home, The" (Greg Brown) by Greg Brown, Iris DeMent, Prudence Johnson, The Nashville Bluegrass Band^[719]
• "Train Carry My Girl Back Home" (Zeke Morris, J. E. Mainer) by The Morris Brothers
• "(Un) Train d'Enfer" by Marie Philippe (1991)
• "Train Fare Home" (Muddy Waters) by Duke Robillard, Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson^[720]
• "Train for Auschwitz" (Tom Paxton) by Tom Paxton^[717]
• "Train for Glory" (Bob Smith) by Dion (Bob Smith)
• "Train for Tomorrow" (Jim Lowe) by The Electric Prunes
• "Train from Kansas City" (Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich) by The Shangri-Las
• "Train Home" (Chris Smither) by Chris Smither
• "Train I Ride, The" by Mississippi Fred McDowell
• "Train I'm On, The" (Tony Joe White) by Tony Joe White
• "Train in the Distance" (Paul Simon) by Paul Simon
• "Train in the Hollow" by The Country Gentlemen
• "Train Is Coming, The" (Ken Boothe, Orville Burrell) by Shaggy featuring Ken Boothe^[721]
• "Train Is Gone, The", separate songs with this title, artist followed by composer: Memphis Slim (Memphis Slim),^[722] Michael Bloomfield (Michael Bloomfield)^[723]
• "Train Keep on Movin'" (Willie Hutch) by The 5th Dimension
• "Train Kept A-Rollin" (Tiny Bradshaw, Howie Kay, Louis Mann) by Aerosmith, Jeff Beck, Tiny Bradshaw, Johnny Burnette, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Colin James, Motörhead, The Nazz, Twisted Sister, Yardbirds^[724]
• "Train Kept Rolling On" (Jem Finer) by The Pogues^[725]
• "Train Leaves Here This Morning" (Bernie Leadon, Gene Clark) by The Byrds, Gene Clark, Dillard & Clark, Eagles, The Seldom Scene^[726]
• "Train Long-Suffering" (Nick Cave) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds^[727]
• "Train Man" (Bob Seger) by The Bob Seger System^[728]
• "Train Music" (Percy Grainger), experimental work with 150-piece orchestra, 1901
• "Train My Woman's On, The" (Neil Merritt) by Hank Snow^[170]
• "Train of Consequences" (Dave Mustaine) by Megadeth
• "Train of Love", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Paul Anka, Annette Funicello (Paul Anka); Johnny Cash, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Robert Gordon, Laurie Lewis, Doc Watson (Johnny Cash); Guy Mitchell (Alex Kramer, Hy Zaret, Joan Whitney); Neil Young & Crazy Horse (Neil Young);The Pogues;Willie Hutch; Bob Dylan ^[729]
• "Train of Memories" by Kathy Mattea
• "Train on a Track" (Rob Fusari, Sylvester Jordan, Tiaa Wells, Balewa Muhammad) by Kelly Rowland
• "Train on the Island" (Traditional) by Laura Cortese, Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard, Rayna Gellert & Susie Goehring, Sara Grey, Joe Hickerson, Tommy Jarrell, Joy Kills Sorrow, Mac Martin, Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown, Tim O'Brien, Todd Phillips, Tao Seeger, Peter Stampfel & The Ether Frolic Mob, Stephen Wade^[730]
• "Train Round the Bend" by The Velvet Underground
• "Train Running Low on Soul Coal" (Andy Partridge) by XTC^[731]
• "Train Song", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Harry Belafonte & Miriam Makeba (Traditional, Xhosa); Bim Skala Bim, Holly Cole, The Holmes Brothers, Tom Waits (Tom Waits); Vashti Bunyan (Bunyan, Clayre); Eliza Carthy (Ben Ivitsky, Eliza Carthy); King Curtis (composer unlisted); Delta 5 (Delta 5); Flying Burrito Brothers (Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons); Johnossi (Ossi Bonde, John Engelbert); Listener (Listener); Murray McLauchlan (Murray McLauchlan); Stephin Merritt (Stephin Merritt); Carol Noonan (Carol Noonan); Pentangle (Bert Jansch, Danny Thompson, Jacqui McShee, John Renbourn, Terry Cox); Tom Waits; The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band (The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band); Phish (Mike Gordon); Mindy Smith (Mindy Smith); Smoke (Smoke); Smokie (Alan Silson); Brent Spiner & Maude Maggart (Brent Spiner, Maude Maggart); Summer Hymns (Zach Gresham); Andy Summers (Andy Summers); Wendy Waldman (Wendy Waldman)^[732]
• "Train Song, The" (Nick Cave) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds^[733]
• "Train That Carried My Girl from Town, The" by Roscoe Holcomb,^[734] Frank Hutchison,^[163] Doc Watson,^[341]
• "Train Time at Pun'kin Centre" by Cal Stewart & American Quartet, 1919^[735]
• "Train Time Blues", separate songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Amos Milburn (Cecil Gant), Tampa Red (unknown), Jimmie Rodgers (Jimmie Rodgers)
• "Train to 'Frisco" (G. Scruggs, R, Scruggs) by Earl Scruggs Revue
• "Train to Nowhere" by Dead 60s, Savoy Brown
• "Train to Skaville" by Boney M.
• "Train to Train" by Mikako Takahashi, Aya Hirano, Fujimura Ayumi, Miyu Matsuki, Satomi Akesaka, Mai Nakahara, Rina Satō, Mamiko Noto, Shiho Kawaragi, Kimiko Koyama, Noriko Shitaya and Ai Shimizu, and Hitomi Nabatame
• "Train Tracks" by Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds

• "Train Train" (Zenon Defleur) by Billy Bragg
• "Train, Train" by Blackfoot, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Warrant
• "Train-Train" (Hiroto Kōmoto) by The Blue Hearts
• "Train Was Saved, The" (Charles Graham), published 1891^[736][737]
• "Train Whistle Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Gene Autry, Steve Forbert, Merle Haggard, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Snow, Doc & Richard Watson, Robin & Linda Williams;^[738] additional songs with this title, artists followed by composers: Amos Milburn (Amos Milburn);^[739] Sonny Terry (Sonny Terry)^[740]
• "Train with No Love" by Andre Nickatina
• "Train with the Rhumba Beat" (Johnny Horton) by Johnny Horton^[273]
• "Train Wreck" by Sarah McLachlan
• "Trains" by Ian Anderson
• "Trains" by Porcupine Tree
• "Trains" by Al Stewart
• "Trains" (Mohr) by Reginald Gardiner^[198]
• "Trains and Boats and Planes" by Billy J. Kramer, Dionne Warwick
• "Trains Don't Run from Nashville" by Kate Campbell
• "Trains Make Me Lonesome" by George Strait
• "Trains of No Return" by Ofra Haza
• "Trains of Waterloo, The" (Les Barker) by Les Barker & Mrs. Ackroyd Band with June Tabor^[741]
• "Trains, Tracks and Travel" by Hank Snow
• "Traintime" by The Graham Bond Organisation, Cream (note: both bands shared the same singer and rhythm section: Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker)
• "Trainwreck of Emotion" (Alan Rhody, Jon Vezner) by Del McCoury, Lorrie Morgan^[742]
• "Tramp, The" (Traditional, c. 1873–1893) by Vernon Dalhart (1926), Sam & Kirk McGee (1927)^[88]
• "Trams of Old London" (Robyn Hitchcock) by Robyn Hitchcock^[378]
• "Trans-Europe Express" by Kraftwerk
• "Trans Karoo" by Bles Bridges
• "Transit Ride" by Guru
• "Transylvania Terror Train" (Jesse Dayton) by Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures^[743]
• "Travelin' Blues" by Blind Willie McTell, Ma Rainey, Bill Monroe
• "Trein na Margate" by Steve Hofmeyr
• "Trein na Matjiesfontein" by Sonja Herholdt
• "Trein na Pretoria" has been recorded by Stefan Lubbe, Die Briels, Die Grafsteen Sangers, Dozi and Peter Senekal among others.
• "Tren al Sur" by Los Prisioneros^[744]
• "Trolley Song, The" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blain), from Meet Me in St. Louis, by Herb Alpert, Tony Bennett, The Brook Brothers, Dave Brubeck, Carol Burnett, Frankie Carle & 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 Vaughn^[745]
• "Trouble Funk Express" by Trouble Funk
• "True and Trembling Brakeman, The" by Cliff Carlisle^[746]
• "Trusty Lariet, The (Cowboy Fireman)" (Harry McClintock) by Harry McClintock^[747]
• "Tuesday's Gone" (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) by Atlanta Rhythm Section, Nell Bryden, Larry Cordle, The Crust Brothers, King Bee, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica, Randy Montana & Shooter Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr.^[748]
• "Tulsa Queen" (Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell) by Emmylou Harris^[749]
• "Turbo" (Eldon Rathburn) by Atlantic Brass Quintet^[229]
• "Tussen Stasies" by Jack Parow featuring Die Heuwels Fantasties
• "Tussen Treine" by Richard van der Westhuizen and covered by Gerhard Steyn
• "Twenty-Four Minutes from Tulse Hill" by Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
• "Two Trains Running" by Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Blues Project, Little Feat

U

• "U.S. Highball" by Harry Partch
• "Under Your Thumb" (Kevin Godley, Lol Creme) by Godley & Creme^[750]
• "Underground Rail Car (or Song of the Fugitive)" (George N. Allen),^[751] written and published 1854^[752]
• "Up Train Mountain"

V

• "Valve Oil" by Johnny Horton
• "View (East from the Top of the Riggs Road/B&O Trestle)" by John Fahey
• "Virginian Strike of '23" (Roy Harvey, Earl Shirkey, 1929) by Roy Harvey, Earl Shirkey,^[753] Mike Seeger^[754]
• "Vlak za neshtastnici" (Bulgarian: Влак за нещастници; Train for losers) by Bulgarian pop-folk singer Ivana

W

• "Wabash Cannonball" (Traditional) by Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Lonnie Donegan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Flatt & Scruggs, The Louvin Brothers, Blind Willie McTell, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Osborne Brothers,^[755] Utah Phillips,^[167] Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Leon Russell, Pete Seeger, Hank Snow, Merle Travis, Ernest Tubb, The Ventures, Doc & Merle Watson, Bob Weir^[755]
• "Wagon Wheel" (Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor)^[756] by Old Crow Medicine Show^[757]
• "Waiting at the Station" by Aaron Neville
• "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Duane Allman, Gene Autry, Beck, Roy Book Binder, Johnny Cash, Michael Chapman, David Allen Coe, Dick Curless, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Merle Haggard, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny James, Grandpa Jones, Furry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Louvin, Katy Moffatt, Jim Reeves, Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash, Boz Scaggs, John Sebastian, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb^[758]
• "Waiting for That Railroad" by Joey Ramone
• "Waiting for the '103" by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
• "Waiting for the B Train" by Christine Lavin
• "Waiting for the End of the World" (Elvis Costello) by Elvis Costello^[759][760]
• "(Waiting for the) Ghost Train" by Madness
• "Waiting for the Siren's Call" by New Order
• "Waiting for the Train to Come In" by Peggy Lee
• "Waiting on a Train" by Mark Lanegan
• "Waiting on a Train" by Steve Forbert
• "Walking Down a Railroad Line" by Woody Guthrie
• "Walkin' Blues Again" by Eric Bibb
• "Walkin' Down the Line" (Bob Dylan) by The Country Gentlemen,^[761] Bob Dylan^[762]
• "Walkin' Holes in My Shoes" by Boxcar Willie
• "Wave Your Flag and Stop the Train" by The Move
• "Waymore's Blues" by Waylon Jennings
• "Way Out in Idaho" (Traditional) by Rosalie Sorrels, Blaine Stubblefield^[763]
• "Way Out There" (Bob Nolan) by Bill Boyd, Carter Burwell, Slim Dusty, Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger, Cisco Houston, Seamus Kennedy, Michael Martin Murphey, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Gene Parsons, Utah Phillips, Riley Puckett, Riders in the Sky, Marty Robbins, Pete Seeger, Hank Snow, The Sons of the Pioneers^[764]
• "Weathered Old Caboose Behind the Train, The" (Norman Blake) by Norman Blake^[765]
• "West End Blues" by Duke Ellington
• "Western Hobo, The" (A.P. Carter) by The Carter Family^[157]
• "Westbound Train" by Dennis Brown
• "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" (Michael Martin Murphey & Owen Castleman) by The Monkees, Michael Martin Murphey^[766]
• "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King
• "When My Train Pulls In " by Gary Clark Jr
• "When the Golden Train Comes Down" (Bob Nolan) by The Sons of the Pioneers^[767]
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" (Irving Berlin), published 1912,^[768] by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan (1912).^[769] Performed in films by the following artists: Alice Faye, Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1938; Fred Astaire & Judy Garland, Easter Parade, 1948; Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor & Donald O'Connor, There's No Business Like Show Business, 1954^[283]
• "When the Train Comes Along" by Henry Thomas^[158]
• "Whistle Stop" by Louis Prima
• "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" (Tom Waits) by Tom Waits^[770]
• "White Man Singin' the Blues" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard^[136]
• "Whitewash Station Blues" (Jab Jones, Will Shade) by Memphis Jug Band (1928)^[771]
• "Will There Be Any Freight Trains in Heaven" by Jimmy Rogers, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Rondstat
• "Willesden Green" by The Kinks
• "Won't Be Long" by Aretha Franklin
• "Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking" (Rickie Lee Jones, David Kalish) by Rickie Lee Jones^[772]
• "Wreck of the 1256, The" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart, 1925,^[773][774] Curly Fox
• "Wreck of the 1262", also known as "The Freight Wreck at Altoona",^[715] (Fred Tait-Douglas, Carson Robison)^[775] by Vernon Dalhart (1926),^[776] Curly Fox,^[777] Riley Puckett (1937),^[775] Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt, Doc & Merle Watson^[777]
• "Wreck of the C & O Number Five, The" (lyrics Cleburne C. Meeks, 1926; music Vernon Dalhart, 1927) by Vernon Dalhart, Pick Temple, Mac Wiseman^[778]
• "Wreck of the L & N" (Traditional, related to "Wreck on the C & O") by Phipps Family^[252]
• "Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (Cleburn C. Meeks, Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart^[779]
• "Wreck of the Number Nine, The" (Carson Robison, 1927)^[2][780] by Vernon Dalhart & Frank Luther,^[657] Jim & Jesse McReynolds, J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter, Hank Snow, Rosalie Sorrels, Mark Spoelstra, Ernest Stoneman, Doc Watson^[780]
• "Wreck of the Old 49" (Shel Silverstein) by Shel Silverstein, The Smothers Brothers, Uncle Shelby
• "Wreck of the Old 97" (attributed to Charles Noell)^[781] by Roy Acuff,^[782] Pink Anderson,^[783] Johnny Cash,^[207] Vernon Dalhart,^[784][785] Lonnie Donegan,^[786] Ramblin' Jack Elliott,^[787] Flatt & Scruggs,^[788] G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter,^[789] Woody Guthrie,^[781] Frank Hutchison,^[163] Pete Seeger,^[790] Kate Smith,^[791] Hank Snow,^[792] Muggsy Spanier,^[224] Billy Strange^[793]
• "Wreck of the Royal Palm Express, The" (Andrew Jenkins) by Vernon Dalhart,^[794] Joe Glazer,^[161] Andrew Jenkins, Frank Luther^[2]
• "Wreck of the Shenandoah" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart with Carson Robison and Lou Raderman (1925)^[795]
• "Wreck of the Virginian Number 3, The" (Blind Alfred Reed, 1927)^[796] by Roy Harvey with Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers,^[796][797] Blind Alfred Reed^[796][798]
• "Wreck on the C & O, The" (Unknown), basis for "Engine 143" and "F.F.V.", earliest printing 1913, by John Allison, George Reneau & Gene Austin (1924), Ernest Stoneman (1925)^[252]