List of Train Songs - W

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• "Wabash Cannonball" (Traditional) by Roy Acuff, Chet Atkins, The Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby, Lonnie Donegan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Flatt & Scruggs, The Louvin Brothers, Blind Willie McTell, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Osborne Brothers, Utah Phillips, Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Leon Russell, Pete Seeger, Hank Snow, Merle Travis, Ernest Tubb, The Ventures, Doc & Merle Watson, Bob Weir
• "Wagon Wheel" (Bob Dylan, Ketch Secor) by Old Crow Medicine Show
• "Waiting at the Station" by Aaron Neville
• "(Waiting for the) Ghost Train" by Madness
• "Waiting for a Train" (Jimmie Rodgers) by Duane Allman, Gene Autry, Beck, Roy Book Binder, Johnny Cash, Michael Chapman, David Allen Coe, Dick Curless, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Merle Haggard, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny James, Grandpa Jones, Furry Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Louvin, Katy Moffatt, Jim Reeves, Jimmie Rodgers, Boz Scaggs, John Sebastian, Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb
• "Waiting for that Railroad" by Joey Ramone
• "Waiting for the '103" by Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
• "Waiting for the B Train" by Christine Lavin
• "Waiting for the End of the World" (Elvis Costello) by Elvis Costello
• "Waiting for the Siren's Call" by New Order
• "Waiting on a Train" by Steve Forbert
• "Walking Down a Railroad Line" by Woody Guthrie
• "Walkin' Blues Again" by Eric Bibb
• "Walkin' Down the Line" (Bob Dylan) by The Country Gentlemen, Bob Dylan
• "Walkin' Holes in My Shoes" by Boxcar Willie
• "Waymore's Blues" by Waylon Jennings
• "Way Out in Idaho" (Traditional) by Rosalie Sorrels, Blaine Stubblefield
• "West End Blues" by Duke Ellington
• "Westbound Train" by Dennis Brown
• "What Am I Doing Hangin' 'Round?" (Michael Martin Murphey & Owen Castleman) by The Monkees, Michael Martin Murphey
• "When Love Comes to Town" by B.B. King
• "When the Golden Train Comes Down" by Sons of the Pioneers
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'" (Irving Berlin), published 1912, by Arthur Collins & Byron G. Harlan. Performed in films by the following artists: Alice Faye, Alexander's Ragtime Band, 1938; Fred Astaire & Judy Garland, Easter Parade, 1948; Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Mitzi Gaynor & Donald O'Connor, There's No Business Like Show Business, 1954
• "When the Train Comes Along" by Henry Thomas
• "Whistle Stop" by Louis Prima
• "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" (Tom Waits) by Tom Waits
• "White Man Singin' the Blues" (Merle Haggard) by Merle Haggard
• "Whitewash Station Blues" (Jab Jones, Will Shade) by Memphis Jug Band
• "Will There Be Any Freight Trains in Heaven" by Jimmy Rogers, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris & Linda Rondstat
• "Willesden Green" by The Kinks
• "Won't Be Long" by Aretha Franklin
• "Wreck of the 1256, The" (Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart, 1925, Curly Fox
• "Wreck of the 1262", also known as "The Freight Wreck at Altoona", (Fred Tait-Douglas, Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart (1926), Curly Fox, Riley Puckett (1937), Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt, Doc & Merle Watson
• "Wreck of the C & O Number Five, The" (lyrics Cleburne C. Meeks, 1926; music Vernon Dalhart, 1927) by Vernon Dalhart, Pick Temple, Mac Wiseman
• "Wreck of the L & N" (Traditional, related to "Wreck on the C & O") by Phipps Family
• "Wreck of the N & W Cannonball" (Cleburn C. Meeks, Carson Robison) by Vernon Dalhart
• "Wreck of the Number Nine, The" (Carson Robison, 1927) by Vernon Dalhart & Frank Luther, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, Jim Reeves, Tex Ritter, Hank Snow, Rosalie Sorrels, Mark Spoelstra, Ernest Stoneman, Doc Watson
• "Wreck of the Old 49" by Uncle Shelby
• "Wreck of the Old 97" (attributed to Charles Noell) by Roy Acuff, Pink Anderson, Johnny Cash, Vernon Dalhart, Lonnie Donegan, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Flatt & Scruggs, G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter, Woody Guthrie, Frank Hutchison, Pete Seeger, Kate Smith, Hank Snow, Muggsy Spanier, Billy Strange
• "Wreck of the Royal Palm Express, The" (Andrew Jenkins) by Vernon Dalhart, Joe Glazer, Andrew Jenkins, Frank Luther
• "Wreck of the Virginian Number 3, The" (Blind Alfred Reed, 1927) by Roy Harvey with Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers, Blind Alfred Reed
• "Wreck on the C & O, The" (Unknown), basis for "Engine 143" and "F.F.V.", earliest printing 1913, by John Allison, George Reneau & Gene Austin (1924), Ernest Stoneman (1925)