Table of Contents:
  • Rail dynamics (excerpt) (Emory Cook)
  • Train 45 (the New Lost City Ramblers)
  • Kassie Jones (Furry Lewis)
  • Jay Gould's daughter (Pete Seeger)
  • Railroad Bill (Walt Robertson)
  • Linin' track (Leadbelly)
  • Freight train (Elizabeth Cotten)
  • Drill, ye tarriers, drill (Cisco Houston)
  • Zack, the Mormon engineer (L.M. Hilton)
  • Lost train blues (Virginia Mountain Boys)
  • The F.F.V. (previously unreleased) (Annie Watson)
  • He's coming to us dead (the New Lost City Ramblers)
  • The train that carried my girl from town (Doc Watson)
  • Rock Island Line (Leadbelly)
  • Lonesome train (Sonny Terry)
  • John Henry (Cisco Houston)
  • The wreck of the Number Nine (Rosalie Sorrels)
  • Freight train blues (Brownie McGhee)
  • The New Market wreck (Mike Seeger)
  • Jerry, go and oil that car (Harry K. "Haywire Mac" McClintock)
  • Way out in Idaho (Rosalie Sorrels)
  • Old John Henry died on the mountain (Henry Grady Terrell)
  • Casey Jones (John D. Mounce)
  • Wreck of the old 97 (Pop Stoneman)
  • Midnight Special (Leadbelly)
  • Wabash Cannonball (Doc Watson)
  • Lost train blues (Vernon L. Sutphin)
  • New River train (Iron Mountain String Band)
  • Three little engines and 33 cars (excerpt) (Vinton Wight).