Given the huge impact that railroads have had on 2oth century American music, across Blues, Country and Rock'n'Roll - a whole style, boogie-woogie, was based on the rhythm of the train going over the tracks - the combination of period train videos and Country railroad songs was a match waiting to happen. Here's Ralph Stanley, from the mid-Seventies, courtesy of YouTube contributor "waneonnol":
Also worth checking out, in the same vein: Bound to Ride by Ralph Stanley again; Blue Railroad Train and Freight Train Boogie by the Delmore Brothers, and George Jones doing the Hank Williams classic, Lonesome Whistle.
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