SOUNDS OTHER than train in the basement.

[FJ and G]

Well sure sure nice not to live in the ole apartment, townhome and condo. Heard some really funky sounds in the neighboring dwellings.

Now, the only annoying sound is the furnace kickin on and off to warm my butt.

Only sounds besides trains that now keep me company is the wind howling outside or BB the beagle scratching thru boxes of stuff to look for chewables.

Other than that, I usually turn on the TV and go to channel 829, the Big Band channel, and crank up the volume. I regret not having wired speaker wires thruout the basement before putting up the drywall.

[cnw1995]

Interesting points - what do I hear? The train motors and track noise - they actually do not make any train-sound themselves. Voices occasionally wafting from the air ducts. The motor of the WW2 aircraft plylon - annoying. Game music and sounds from the nearby PlayStation 2. The furnace cycling on and off. Dog snoring. I have an ancient CD player with speakers where I play old time radio shows I taped in the 90s and a trainsounds CD. I also pot up and down the Soundmaster 8000 with an asynchronized chuff or diesel hmm and a slide bar for the whistle or horn. When the two year old is here - he has a wooden whistle he blows too.

[Anonymous]

Hey Guys,

There is an old superstition that basements of old houses are haunted.

Well, I live in an old well preserved, modernized log cabin. It looks old, smells old, feels old, yet is very modern.

The basement, the old owners said, was haunted by a head that rolled around on the floor and the ghostly black cloak ladden creature.

Well, my layout has been condemmed to the basement. After 2 weeks, we hadn't heard ofghosts or seen any in there, but we modernized it. Well, you can geuss what happened. The head one day, rolled out from under my layout, sending me screaching up on to the elevated chair I sat on.

Then, I saw this creature. I heard breathing, and my own whimpering as it approached me. Then the lights went out, and it came right up to my face. I was so terrified, I passed out.

I remember seeing the figure fading as I fell. When I woke up, the lights were back on, my parents were there, along with my friends, who heard the commotion.

I stood up, and fell something sticking in my back. I brbbed it, and saw it was a plastic tree.

I turned to look at my layout, and feare the worst. I had broken he table(4x8, nothingbut legs and board, no frames, had broken in half. The buildings had been glued dwn, so they stayed in place, exept for the one that my LTI Wabash Passenger Train had hit, when the tabe broke.

I looked down, and saw the engine had smashed a hole in the building, and it stuck, I only had 3 cars for it then, and they wrere on the floor.

Since then, I have never been back into the basement, but I will go again, when we get good lights, and a TV, and my layout and collection down there.

[FJ and G]

Bradley,

Welcome to the forum. Man, that's exciting story. In fact, it's the funkiest one I've ever heard of.

I live on ground where skirmishes took place during the battles for Manassas (Civil War).

I haven't seen the ghosts of these Yanks and Rebs but every now and then, BB the beagle will sort of jump in the air and stare at something that I can't see but I know she knows is there.

Likely as not the ghosts of soldiers or possibly even Indians.

(or could be she scented a distant rabbit?)

BTW, I used to car pool in LA with this Chilaean lady who saw the ghost of her dead mother standing over her bed. I met other credible people with stories as well that I believe, even tho I can't vouch for any of it.

[dougdagrump]

So long as some of those sounds aren't the result of "pickled eggs and beer". [(-D]

[choochin3]

...mmmmmmm,BEER!

Cheers,
Carl T.

[Anonymous]

Welcome back to the forums, Nick! That's quite the ghost story!

[Anonymous]

Hey

Who is Nick?

Anyway, that ghost story was a tad bit exxagerated. I spruced it up a little for interest.

What realy happened was,

A ghost head rolled out from under the layout, something moved in the corner, went to pick up the head, I fainted, fell on my layout, broke it in 2, and havent been in the basement since, not even to clean up the mess.

[Anonymous]

Oh,

I tried to ask local people what the story behind the ghost head is, but, nobody will talk about it. Oh well.

[Jim Duda]

Bradley - I certainly know what you mean about being scared to death by a Train Ghost...!

(click it)

[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-11/888231/BEEP-SD60Ghost.JPG[/image]

[laz 57]

JIMBO,
I like your ghosts? Send them to Pa.
laz57

[csxt30]

No! Send em' to Conneaut Ohio! I won't be scared, promise!!! Nice one, John

[3railguy]

Jimbo, you need to order an OGR bleep because the colors match that SD-whatever it is. I think that's what the ghost is PO'd about.

[ChiefEagles]

Haunted houses. HUMM Wife called Hampton this weekend complaining that she heard someone coming down stairs and then found the back door unlocked [which she ahd locked]. Aunt Lessie on the prowl [lady who owned the house we bought]. Aunt Lessie really likes us as we are "dog people" and she treated her dogs like her daughter. One night Alison [youngest] was having a slumber party in the living room. She woke up to see a lady standing in the doorway to the kitchen/diningroom. She screamed out, "What do you want?" I jumped up and ran into the diningroom. I then walked into the kitchen and utility room with no shoes on. It was raining and no wet foot prints on the floor. Alison said she went back out the utility room. [?] The night Alison moved out when she got married, the back door knob screws were found screwed out [had to be done from inside] and the outside light at the backdoor was unscrewed. Aunt Lessie was upset that Alison had moved as she liked Alison. [;)] Hey, I wonder if she was upstairs playing with my trains????? [:D]

[laz 57]

WOOGIE BOOGIE WOOGIE this is starting to sound like the Twilight Zone.
laz57

[tjsprague]

My nine year old practicing on his drums. Seems he waits until I go down to run trains.

The curse of my Mom has come true;
"someday, I hope you have a son just like you!"

Tim

[underworld]

Hey Jim, you can send your ghost over here. I'm a ghost expert! [:p][:p][:p][:p][:p]
I live in a nice old gothic style building....the first part of it was built in 1851 and addtions were made until about 1913. It's haunted, but aren't all buildings of a certain age????? The sound that can be heard in the basement are the washers and dryers in the laundry room, the boilers for the heating system, and occasionally one or more of our bats. I think they are Indiana Brown bats.....small and really cute!

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Jim Duda]

Be careful of my ghost...she hangs out in hump yards! We're all in trouble if her twin sister ever shows up...YIKES!

[Roger Bielen]

Currently I don't have a basement. The house I was raised in till I was 16 had a "cellar", dark, dank, and scarey. The house was Victorian and across the road from a cemetary. My worst task was having to go to the cellar the put coal into the furnace or to light/shut off the gas water heater, no auto controls back then, at night. The old steam pipes creeked and moaned. The stairs down were steep,narrow, open risered and over the wood bin, at night I couldn't get back upstairs fast enough.

Happily we lived on the second floor, my aunt and uncle had the first, and I had the attic for my train layout.

[Anonymous]

I personally like to come home after a hard days work and listen to nothing BUT my trains sounds. I find it relaxing. I work in construction and it is very noisy all day. The sounds of my toy trains running is kind of like listening to a stream running when I go out hunting and fishing.

[Anonymous]

Sask_Tinplater



You are right on target.

He wrote this right after Nick left .

"Hey Guys,

That was rude. I think that is the reason Bert and Mary Poppins left. Earlier today, I saw a topic stating that he had been acused of lying about a bridge.

He had lied about trains earlier, then, apologized, swore he wouldn't do it again, and asked forgivness.

I think it was very manly for him to ask forgiveness, as not many people can do that.

But, then he was treated rudley, and he was so upset, he left forever, so stated his topic.

I cameback to look for it, but it was gone.

But, I do know where you can get those bridges. There is a Balck one for $299 and a Silver one for $345 at Grysiboskis."