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The Best Country Songs About Trains
By Ciara Bains
Whether they’re hopping them, catching them, or just waiting for them, it seems like trains will always be chugging their way into the hearts of country songwriters.

By Ciara Bains
Whether they’re hopping them, catching them, or just waiting for them, it seems like trains will always be chugging their way into the hearts of country songwriters.
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They make George Strait “lonesome”, Johnny Cash has got “a thing” about them and Roseanne Cash’s baby even thinks he is one.
Ever since Jimmie Rodgers picked up a guitar on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad and became "The Singing Brakeman" in the 1920s, country singers have been writing and singing songs about their enduring love affair with locomotives.
Whether they’re hopping them, catching them, or just waiting for them, it seems like trains will always be chugging their way into the hearts of country songwriters. We’ve collected together enough songs to make Francis Bourgeois go all giddy in our playlist of The Best Country Songs About Trains. All aboard!
See the full tracklist for Holler's Best Country Songs About Trains Playlist below:
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1.
I've Got A Thing About Trains
Johnny Cash
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2.
My Love Affair With Trains
Merle Haggard
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3.
I Been To Georgia On A Fast Train
Billy Joe Shaver
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4.
Freight Train
Alan Jackson
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5.
Desperados Waiting For A Train
Guy Clark
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6.
Runaway Train
Little Big Town
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7.
Long Black Train
Josh Turner
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8.
Railroad of Sin
Sturgill Simpson
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9.
Let The Train Blow The Whistle
Johnny Cash
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10.
Wabash Cannonball
Roy Acuff
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11.
Mystery Train
Emmylou Harris
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12.
Trains Make Me Lonesome
George Strait
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13.
City Of New Orleans
Willie Nelson
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14.
Waiting For A Train
Jimmie Rodgers
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15.
Hey Porter
Johnny Cash
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16.
Freight Train
Aaron Watson
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17.
Midnight Train To Memphis
Chris Stapleton
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18.
Robbin' Trains
Justin Moore
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19.
Train Leaves Here This Morning
Eagles
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20.
On The Evening Train
Johnny Cash
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21.
Two Trains
Lowell George
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22.
Fast Movin' Train
Restless Heart
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23.
Folsom Prison Blues
Johnny Cash
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24.
Night Train
Jason Aldean
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25.
The Midnight Special
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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26.
Engine Engine #9
Roger Miller
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27.
Rock Island Line
Johnny Cash
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28.
Railroads
Holly Williams
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29.
Raised by the Railroad
Chris LeDoux
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30.
Play A Train Song
Robert Earl Keen
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31.
Railroad Lady
Willie Nelson
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32.
Railroad Cars
Boy Named Banjo
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33.
I Heard That Lonesome Whistle
Johnny Cash
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34.
That Atlantic Coastal Line
Charley Pride
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35.
Train Yard
Ray Wylie Hubbard
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36.
Nowhere Train
Carlene Carter
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37.
Freight Train Boogie
Willie Nelson
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38.
Leaving Train
Gillian Welch
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39.
Train Travelin'
Dierks Bentley
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40.
Slow Train
Tyler Booth
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41.
Same Old Train
Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs, Merle Haggard, Patty Loveless, Joe Diffie, Alison Krauss, Pam Tillis, Ricky Skaggs, Emmylou Harris and Clint Black
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42.
Blue Smoke
Dolly Parton
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43.
Life Rides The Train
Porter Wagoner
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44.
On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
John Denver
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45.
The Train Never Stops
Merle Haggard
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46.
This Train
Randy Travis
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47.
Ghost Trains
Hank Snow
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48.
My Baby Thinks He's A Train
Roseanne Cash
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49.
Daddy Loved Trains
Keith Whitley
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50.
Come Along and Ride This Train
Johnny Cash
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