Trains and Boats and... No, Just Trains

[stoutfellow]

Slacktivist has a post up on the symbolism of trains in USAn song. Interesting thoughts; of course, they extend to literature as well. Robert Bloch and Manley Wade Wellman come to mind immediately, and I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Comments

[mmegaera]

That is a woefully incompetent list -- no "City of New Orleans"??? That's the first train song that leaps to my mind, anyway.

[stoutfellow]

When he makes those lists, he only includes songs which he himself has. Which, maybe, implies something else....

"City of New Orleans", "500 Miles", Chuck Berry's "Downbound Train", Springsteen's completely different "Downbound Train" - there are quite a few notable songs he doesn't seem to have. (Some of them are brought up by his commenters, though.)