Train Music

Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231:

Meade Lux Lewis's "Honky Tonk Train Blues":

Glenn Miller's "Chattanooga Choo Choo," from the 1941 film Sun Valley Serenade, featuring Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers:

Judy Garland sings Harry Warren's "The Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe," from the 1946 film The Harvey Girls:

...and from the same year as The Harvey Girls, Duke Ellington's "Happy Go Lucky Local," from The Deep South Suite:

Saxophonist Jimmy Forrest, who was briefly in Ellington's band during the late '40s, ripped this tune off and had a hit with "Night Train."  Here's James Brown's famous version:

And here's Pierre Schaeffer's early musique concrète piece, "Etude aux chemins de fer":

Different Trains: