Ghost Train Stories

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

Long the backbone of American Railroad folk lore, the Ghost Train is a fasinating subject. This topic is to trade and tell American Railroad Ghost Stories.

Here is one located near my home.

In the early 1900's, the old prison farm for juvinile dilinquintes located off of highway 701, had sent a group of prisoners as a chang gang to work on the railroad tracks. They worked on the spot where the dirt road (built after this, as well as 701) crossed the Atlantic Coast line railroad tracks.

The line had been purchased 2 months before this from the Conway and Chadorn railroad. Any way, a special train was coming and the warden was told to get them off the tracks. They all got off the tracks but 2. while they were working, the chans hab tangled with the rails and ties and they were stuck.

The looked upthe line and there was the express. The special came rushing at them. The headlight beared down on them menicingly, smoke was belching from the diamond shaped stack and the engineer had just been relaesed froma mental hospital and he was laughing wildly as he drove the express.

Then, ureaka, the chains shook free, but all in vain. Just as the chains shook free, the express locomotive caught the chains, the inmates where drug to the high drivers and they were ground into a bloody pulp.

Now when you go to the crossing, you stop on the tracks and turn off your car. You see the ghost of the inmates working. Then the train will appear and the car will not start. Then, the ghost runs through your car and catches the 2 inmates and history repeats itself exatcly.

I am going to host a Hayride this Halloween for my church group. I will take them all over and the last stop will be the crossing. I'll take ky girl friend too. She'll like that.


Nicholas Parker

[Anonymous]

Thats a very intersting story.I know of a book that talks about ghost trains,but dont know the exact title of it.Telling the story to your church organization should be exciting. I hope your girlfriend doesn't wet her pants,when she sees the ghosts.

[Anonymous]

Hey Ya'll

Oh, no I don't think she will (laugh,laugh,laugh). She will probably scream and grab onto me. Thats the plan, I think. Actually, I am one of those don't belive it until I see it persons, and right now I am kind of skeptic. How ever if it is real, then I'll belive every ghst story that I hear.

Heck, I'll probably do the same thing as my girlfriend if I see it. But, you never know.

I think the book you are talking about is the book called "Ghost Train". It is filled with American Railroad Ghost stories, I don't have the book with me right now, but I think the author is Tony Reevy. I bought the book at Books-A-Million.

Nick

[Anonymous]

Ghost & the Tracks of Mission Ave

During the 1940's in SAN ANTONIO, Texas a bus with 10 children were crossing a railroad track on Mission Ave. The bus stalled on the tracks and without warning a train crashed into the bus killing everyone on board.

To this day you can stop your car just before the tracks, turn the car off and put it in neutral and take your foot off the pedals. The road is on an UPWARD hill to the tracks on both sides. Your car WILL start to move UP the hill and accelerate until you cross the tracks about 10 feet and then the car will stop again. People tried to say it was the earth's gravitational pull. So the believers began putting baby powder on the trunks of their cars and bumpers. After the car is over the tracks you get out fo your car and you WILL see finger prints. CHILDREN'S finger prints on your car.

This story has been recorded in newspaper and Television. Ghost Stories on Sci-Fi Channel recently showed a report on this.... The reporter tried this while being video taped and it worked. It is strange to experience this first hand as I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, but ask anyone who ever lived in San Antonio about the tracks and they will tell you it's the ghost of those children. Next time you visit the home of the ALAMO, take a trip over to mission ave and experience this strange report. However, the San Antonio Light newspaper has no report of the accident, yet the prints are still there and the car does move off the tracks. It was great amusement as a teen taking a date out to ole MISSION Ave.

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[railman]

great stories...spooky.