Hop the Freight or Walk the Line? Riding the Rails, USA

Tutwiler and Walls (Mississippi), Bristol (Tennessee/Virginia border):

 Photos: JP

All Aboard! Muddy Waters, Little Walter

The Hobo, John Lee Hooker

Pea Vine Blues, Charley Patton

"I think I heard the Pea Vine when it blowed 

I think I heard Pea Vine when it blowed 

She blowed just like she wasn't gonna blow no more"

Chickasaw Train Blues, Memphis Minnie

Mean Old Frisco, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup

When The Train Comes Along, Mississippi Fred McDowell

Waiting for a Train, Jimmie Rodgers

Train Whistle Blues, Jimmie Rodgers

The Wabash Cannonball, The Carter Family

Cannonball Blues, The Carter Family

Hear My Train A Comin', Jimi Hendrix

Acoustic 12-string version

Pan-American, Hank Snow

I'm Moving In, Hank Snow

See also: The Kenyan Cannonball

Edward Hopper, American Locomotive, 1944