Earl: My grandpa used to sing "The Baggage Coach Ahead," which generally fit the description you gave, except that I don't recall the narrator being a child. On the other hand, there's a great song about a child riding a train in an attempt to reach his dying mother at home, called "The Lightning Express." "Baggage Coach" is in the DT, and I'm pretty certain, now that I look at it, that it's the one mentioned to you. Bill Foster