Music City Star Nashville, TN Commuter Train

Hop on board the Music City Star as we head east through the suburbs of Nashville! Taking its name from Music City itself, this train runs from downtown Nashville east to Lebanon, TN, a distance of 32 miles. 6 round trips run each day, with 3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. Two of the round trips are only between Nashville and Mt. Juliet. Future plans call for additional commuter lines along different highway corridors around the city of Nashville.

In this video, you will see the central Tennessee countryside as you follow the train east between Donelson and Martha before returning west. Like most commuter railroads, Music City Star uses a cab car on one end of the train, so you will see both locomotives leading as well as the cab cars.

Equipment Info:
Locomotives: 4 F40PH (all ex Amtrak)
Cars: 7 (All Ex-Metra/Chicago RTA)

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[DCProductions]

Top quality video. I find it very cute how they've got 3, 000 horsepower F40PH engines pulling just 2 or 3 cars.

[kylekirchenbauer]

I rode this train to work today. I gotta say, I was amazed by the sheer power pulling just three cars of barely-motivated workers of the world. The F40PH does, however, have a way of making you feel like you can do anything. I just wish I could carry that energy through the entirety of my workday in the way the Music City Star carried me.

[Rob]

Great video! The busiest time of day for the train is early mornings and late afternoon for bringing people from small towns outside of nashville into downtown Nashville for work. I rode this train mid day and we had a car to ourselves. The Music City star is debating to expand to a few more towns.

[GenesisSanctuary]

Awesome video! It's really cool seeing this classic equipment in action. The F40s are really awesome to watch.

[jacobl]

Lived in Nashville for 30 years and never knew this beautiful train was so close by! Thanks for the great video - really learned a lot from this. have a great day man!

[basictransportenthusiast]

I love to see those almost untouched F40PH's. I also love to see that F40PH 381 kept its number and its paint job from Amtrak.

[mcdonnelldouglasmd-]

That a small rolling stock they have! 4 locomotives and 7 cars!

[TexasTrainProductions]

Nice video! I love the horns the the locomotives and how the tracks don't have the super modern look to them.

[AirchimeLTDproductions]

I favor the music city star alot and hope they will get additional rolling stock. And the K5LAs on those locos and cabcars sound great too!!

[RTD]

Those are our old Ex Metra Chicago commuter cars

[vapour_xs]

These guys are real horn-showers, holy crap!

[Lorsterthest]

I love this commuter rail not from the old and new paint scheme, but also the ridiculously fast speed limits for tracks that look barely maintained + curves that make the train bounce like at 1:06

[lil]

This reminds me of the GTA San Andreas trains

[TheViRoCo]

That's a pretty interesting railroad. Nice work!

[EthantheRailfanner]

I like the fact that the crossings are similar to NS

[oct.]

I guess that Music City Star bought a lot of Metra's old cars and engines?? well it looks like it

[amjkodaz]

Ive been to Nashville they should do the service wee round and not only on Monday-Friday. Great job Mike

[gramnylen]

Nice really awaiting for some traction action

[WindyCityRails]

Come to Chicago, our Metra commuter train uses F40s, MP36s and three secondhand F59s from GO transit and its also freight trains galore.

[RailfannerAviation]

Train company: How many horns do you want?
STAR: Yes