How can you not want to hop on and ride trains with names like:
The California Zephyr
The City of New Orleans
The Coast Starlight
The Empire Builder
The Heartland Flyer
The Pacific Surfliner
The Sunset Unlimited
The Texas Eagle
Don’t you want to be a part of this?? Here are some songs, just a handful of the great songs about trains, to get you in the mood, to prepare you for your travels. Trains, the railroad, train travel certainly isn’t what it used to be here, but wouldn’t you like to be a part of this legacy?
Desperados Waiting for a Train
Canadian Railroad Trilogy
Choo Choo Ch’Boogie
Dixie Flyer
Wabash Cannonball
Take the A-Train
And just in case you haven’t noticed:
I’ve Got a Thing About Trains
I, like many people along Amtrak’s “Eastern Corridor” travel by train more than a lot of people in this country do because it is just a lot more common, a lot more convenient and a lot more pleasant than traveling by car sometimes so often I will take the train when I go to NYC or to Connecticut to visit friends.