Railroad songs were the logical and natural development ... Hank Williams was another country star who loved to sing of trains – ‘Freight Train Blues’, ‘Devil’s Train’, ‘The Log ...

I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack, Just a little shanty by the railroad track. The humming of the drivers was my lullaby And a freight train whistle taught me how to cry. Was the only daughter of ...

Two boys waving to a freight train, Union Pacific Museum Since their ... As tracks began to snake their way across the continent during the 1800s, songs were composed to hail the coming of the ...

“It’s not a great song, but it’s a great favourite of mine because it has great memories for me of John and me trying to write a bluesy freight train song,” he said, always holding it dear to him. So, ...