I myself have dedicated 4 years of studying to a ghost train story called the clinchfield curse and I am writing a movie script to recreate what i read from the clinchfield archives and the crr roster. the film is going to be live action as well.
this is the beginning story.
(Campton southwestern railroad oct 31,1957)
It was raining on the night of Halloween on the campton southwestern railroad
sitting quietly was x clinchfield 311 an old 4-8-2 mountain type locomotive 311 was
to take a load of logs from campton to black wolf lodging camp then deliver another train back down o
Ghost Train you say… well my favorite is Alan Rails, AKA “Ghost Train” from Rick & Morty Vindicators III.
His parents were tragically killed by a train, and now he has the super-power to summon a “Ghost Train” by blowing a radiocative train whistle and shouting ALL ABOARD…
On a forum that prominently, and unwittingly somewhat ironically, features “Jeffrey’s Trackside Diner”, would a certain 600-foot movie worm qualify for inclusion in this thread? [A]
A lot of those ghost hunter TV shows have episodes about ghost trains. There was one on Amazon Prime that was quite good just because of the tour of the museum they were in, the ghost part was secondary as far as I was concerned.
thats super creepy I think ill do a youtube documentary about that also I have been through the cascade tunnel twice its super dark and long its cool to ride through it
The conductors on the South Simcoe Railway tell a story of a train that left Tottenham to go to Beeton but was never seen again. They tell the story as the train passes by a large creek. They claim that the whistle of the lost train can be heard if you listen carefully. At that exact time the engineers blow the real whistle in a particularly haunting tone, and everybody gets a chuckle.
The South Simcoe Railway is a historical railway in Tottenham, Ontario that runs an A2m 4-4-0 #136 on the weekends in the summer. The locomotive was built in 1883 and was used in the construction of the Transcontinental Railway. It also starred in the 1970s CBC series ‘The National Dream’.
wow thats sounds a lot like what happened in americas last ettempted train robbery it happened right here in oregon two brother had just hopped the train and it was coming into the tunnel but it never came out the other side a man jumped from the train before it entered the tunnel he claimed to have seen a strange glowing substance coming from the tunnel and thats when he jumped
An old mining village in the North of England. In days long gone, coal trains of empty coal trucks would leave the main line at the bottom of the hill and climb up to the mine. The steam locomotive, normally an 0.6.0 tank engine, would uncouple the wagons, then travel to where the loaded trucks were. With the loaded wagons head back down the hill and onwards.
The mine was closed and everything, except the pit wheel and its frame, was demolished and a new housing estate was built. The pit wheel was chocked to the frame and could not move.
Have you got the picture of the scene in your mind? Then sit comfortably and I’ll begin.
The Story.
We had a friend visiting for the evening. She lived thirty houses away in the same street. A small buffet type meal and a few drinks. Nothing elaborate. Mostly we talked about family and friends.
Just after eleven o’clock our friend began to leave. As I said, she lived thirty houses away, I got up to escort her home. On going outside we heard the sound of a steam engine. The sound of a steam engine that was working hard as if pulling a load uphill.
We went to the end of the road and looked down towards the old pit. The sound of the steam engine was still working hard, but nothing could be seen.
The sound of the steam engine ease, then stopped. A clanking sound of uncoupling the engine. The sound of an engine running lite. The sound of coupling to trucks. The sound of 'Schuuff, Schuuff, Schuuff as if an engine was pulling away and leaving with a full load. The sound of the steam engine slowly drifted away.
What about the Moonville Tunnel (of recent memory)…
If you want no end of true horror stories, find a copy of Charles Francis Adams’ 1879 book on Railway Accidents. Some of them out-Poe Poe, especially the story about the oil cars and the suddenly silent passenger train.
“The Hellbound Train” is a short story by Robert Bloch. Technically, it was published as Sci-fi, but still a good tale, beginning and shiny on a train.
I’ll second the vote for “The Hellbound Train”, and add “The Phantom Brakeman”, one of several railroad stories in a book published decades ago. I remember reading it as a child and it really stuck with me. Supposedly a true story from the early days on Raton Pass. The book is still available from used book sellers.
I was working on a model of a barn recently and I set a figure on my workbench while I did something else in the basement. I came back and the figure is gone. I have searched my workbench, searched the floor, searched everywhere… but the figure is gone. Turned into a ghost, if you ask me.
