| Format | Audio CD |
| Ordering Number | SFW40192 |
| Barcode | 093074019221 |
| label | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Release date | 8/1/2012 |
| Release date | 1/10/2006 |
| salesrank | 4698 |
As 19th-century America expanded, so too did the "ribbons of iron" that crisscrossed the vast landscape and sparked the imagination of music-makers. Work songs, ballads recounting riveting exploits, and instrumental echoes of the once familiar sounds of the steam locomotive have enshrined the railroad in our musical memory. Classic Railroad Songs mines the Smithsonian Folkways archives to create this tribute to a favorite American source of inspiration. 36-page booklet. 71 minutes.
CD 1- 1. An excerpt from "Rail Dynamics"
- 2. Train 45
- 3. Kassie Jones
- 4. Jay Gould's Daughter
- 5. Railroad Bill
- 6. Linin' Track
- 7. Freight Train
- 8. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
- 9. Zack, the Mormon Engineer
- 10. Lost Train Blues
- 11. The F.F.V.
- 12. He's Coming to Us Dead
- 13. The Train That Carried My Girl from Town
- 14. Rock Island Line
- 15. Lonesome Train
- 16. John Henry
- 17. The Wreck of the Number Nine
- 18. Freight Train Blues
- 19. The New Market Wreck
- 20. Jerry, Go Oil That Car
- 21. Way Out in Idaho
- 22. Old John Henry Died on the Mountain
- 23. Casey Jones
- 24. Wreck of the Old 97
- 25. Midnight Special
- 26. Wabash Cannonball
- 27. Lost Train Blues
- 28. New River Train
- 29. Excerpt from "Three Little Engines and 33 Cars"