Back Atcha, Debbie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BVgeEHfuG0 (James Brown--Night Train)

Ooops--I forgot that William already covered this one and my next post. Well, they're both worth listing twice!

Or, better yet . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suu2x5AOJTk (Gladys Knight--Midnight Train to Georgia)

Courtesy of my wife Sally, and for further "research," see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_train_songs (Listing hundreds and hundreds of Railroad Songs)

And, especially for Bila: http://railwaysongs.blogspot.com/2008/11/index.html (Australian Railroad Songs)

Anything by/from Eric Clapton, the watch collector?

Here you go, Ken--Clapton's/Yardbirds' rendition of Smokestack Blues. Muddy Waters' version is posted above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_NFHbPn2Og

Here's one I just heard tonight on WYEP-FM in Pittsburgh, all bluegrass on Sunday night. Train 45, with Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys.
https://video.search.yahoo.com...ozilla&hsimp=yhs-001

Here's a great one (although the sound quality isn't all it might be) by Riders In the Sky - "Here Comes the Santa Fe". I first heard them perform this on a broadcast of Austin City Limits about twenty years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEv28aaHCN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baon2cUXXt0

My family on my mothers side worked for CB&Q out of La Cross WI. I have a little quote from my Uncle John from when i was about eight years old (circa 1961) and I asked him one day when we were fishin' on the Mississippi River why his watch was silver and not gold. "Well sonny gold is for your teeth not your watch" So there is a lot more to railroading history than a fancy gold filled watch. Listen to the music and enjoy.

Regards,
Michael