An excerpt from "Rail dynamics" (recorded by Emory Cook) (:24) --
Train 45 (The New Lost City Ramblers) (2:18) --
Kassie Jones (Furry Lewis) (2:56) --
Jay Gould's daughter (Pete Seeger) (2:38) --
Railroad Bill (Walt Robertson) (2:08) --
Linin' track (Lead Belly) (1:15) --
Freight train (Elizabeth Cotten) (2:43) --
Drill, ye tarriers, drill (Cisco Houston) (2:30) --
Zach, the Mormon engineer (L.M. Hilton) (2:02) --
Lost train blues (The Virginia Mountain Boys) (2:57) --
The F.F.V. (Annie Watson) (3:52) --
He's coming to us dead (The New Lost City Ramblers) (3:15) --
The train that carried my girl from town (Doc Watson) (2:18) --
Rock Island Line (Lead Belly) (2:03) --
Lonesome train (Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie, and Cisco Houston) (3:31) --
John Henry (Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston) (2:42) --
The wreck of the Number Nine (Rosalie Sorrels) (1:36) --
Freight train blues (Brownie McGhee) (3:36) --
The New Market wreck (Mike Seeger) (3:39) --
Jerry, go oil that car (Haywire Mac) (2:38) --
Way out in Idaho (Rosalie Sorrels) (3:34) --
Old John Henry died on the mountain (Henry Grady Terrell) (1:55) --
Casey Jones (John D. Mounce) (:20) --
Wreck of the Old 97 (Pop Stoneman) (2:51) --
Midnight special (Lead Belly) (2:03) --
Wabash Cannonball (Doc Watson) (3:17) --
Lost train blues (Vernon Sutphin) (1:13) --
New River train (Iron Mountain String Band) (4:26) --
Excerpt from "Three little engines and 33 cars" (recorded by Vinton Wight) (:25).