Ghost train stories?

[GN24]

    this is my all time favorite ghost train story in the world!

 

                               The clinchfield curse

 

  (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 on the return journey. Earlier that morning weather reports had been warning of a storm that was to roll in during the evening. It was raining lightly but this was only a sign of the bad weather approaching.

   The ride was going smooth and they were making good progress  going at 15 mp hr the correct speed through the miller river canyon followed by the sound of thunder and whistling winds.They arrived at black wolf logging camp and by then night had fallen over the mountain.311 was serviced and checked over by her crewand they were ready to leave but there was a short delay due to the signal for the all clear on the return journey back to campton malfunctioned. It was repaired but this only made 311 late for her return journey.

Due to the rain a series of major flash floods were reported all across the line. The flash floods loosened large rocks and trees from the banks causing them to be pulled down stream plunging into the raging rapids below. (As they began to cross the bridge the supports gave out and they plunged to their doom). No word of 311 and her crew was heard the next day. As the minutes turned to hours, great concern grew so search teams were sent out for a rescue operation. When they came across the miller river bridge they had discovered that it had collapsed but there was no indication that a train might have gone over it. Other than the bridge itself, whatever happened the remains of 311 and it’s crew had vanished into thin air.

 

   A few years later, a new stronger bridge was completed but strange events began to occur: one night an engine was pulling a freight train up the same line that 311 had disappeared.The locomotive and driver claimed to have seen a headlight hearing a bell ring and a whistle sounding out, then they all vanished together without a trace. Similar reports throughout  the decades soon followed. People and engines alike had reported seeing an engine trying to cross the bridge but never does. According to the legend if  you walk along the mountain line of the highland valley logging and mining company railroad in the fall  you might hear the cry of a whistle in the wind if you are brave enough to walk the line during the thunderstorm on Halloween, you just might get a glance of a 4-8-2 with a blood red lamp as it flares past you it’s whistle screaming into the distance only to vanish in the night.

 

[Anonymous]

Old steam Train whistles anyone?

[Anonymous]

Coincidence? Premonition?

I make it a point to deliberately have such moments of pause, it has served me well.

Have you seen the story about the truck load of Porsches hit by a train?

[jockellis]

I used to own a newspaper in south Georgia and would take papers around on Thursdays to stores which sold it. One day I was cranking along at 100 per and had decided to go over the grade crossing at that speed to see how far I would be airborn. But the thought came to me, "this would be a perfect day for a grade crossing accident." So I snaked the Porsche 914 to a stop at the crossing sign, looked both ways and went on. About 15 minues later I arrived at home to see my wife at the door telling me that the sheriff's office had called for me to go out to a car train accident. It was at the grade crossing I had just stopped at.
Jock Ellis

[Overmod]

Adrian -- you're in the middle of a hundreds-of-mile radius of country where you can do exactly that. Some weekend, drive down 95 or 40, and get onto 896 north. Start taking notes. This is just one little representative example.

[adrianspeeder]

My favorite thing to do (yes more so than drivin the stroker) is when there is at least a foot of snow on the ground, and i go walkin in the fields around home. The cold, sounds of only nature at rest, how clean everything looks, a pretty gray sky with more snow fallin. Man, I feel better just thinkin about it. Although i dont think i will be able to do that down here in philly. :( I wanna go home.

Adrianspeeder

[Anonymous]

Maybe it's more being alone and an environment with no standard with which to guage your perceptions.

It's amazing how far even the smallest sounds will travel in the woods when there is no foliage and the ground is covered with ice. And, compared to the silence, those sounds become apparent. In the pitch black there is no visual cues to compare to the sounds and things that are perfectly still can appear to be moving.

I guess that all sounds very rational, but once your spooked, the more you think about it, the worse it gets.

It's also amazing how far smell travels when there is no foliage. I once smelled warm air and food cooking from a nearby subdivision, it had to be about a mile.

[Anonymous]

It's something about walking the Train Tracks and bad weather that makes for some interesting things that you may or may not see.

[Anonymous]

What a cool story ! now I want to go see the light.

When I was a kid, I would walk home from school on the train tracks, a distance of about 8 miles. My parents worked late, and I always had detention or I would be practicing my bass for the school orchestra. So, one night in the dead of winter, I was walking home in the dark deep in the woods on the track. It was extremely cold (northeast ohio). It may not sound like much, but I got spooked. I have never been one to panic in the woods, I had always loved hiking and never even been lost even in fairly remote places. But, there was something in the trees, and it was following me, and the longer I walked the worse it got. I didn't want to run, because I had quite a ways to go and it was very cold. So, I kept moving at a quik pace even though it started to look like the branches of the trees were being moved by some invisible force, which actually started to get pretty scary. It may not sound like much, but I was sure glad when I got home, I think I ran the last hundred yards.

[Anonymous]

Try this link out. Pretty good story!
http://abandonedrailroads.homestead.com/Maco.html

Larry

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer

UP celebrated halloween earlier this year by sending a train from Montclair to Commerce with NO crew and NO locomotives[:0]!

That's funny, they also sent a train north through downtown Portland from Brooklin yard with no locomotive or crew !!!

It must be part of some new money saving program!!!!!

[Anonymous]

There is a book called Ghost Trains that has stories of haunted stations, bridges, tunnels, etc. You can probably get it at yor local book store.

[adrianspeeder]

If you listen close to any diesel engine you can hear the sound of Old Rudy Diesel's bones creakin at idle and his howl at top rev....

Adrianspeeder

[Anonymous]

Subdivision: Vaudreuil
Mile: <will get back to>
Location: Ste. Anne-De-bellevue, Quebec, Canada
Railway: CP Rail

One Night, A railway crew Responded to an "urgent structural failure" in the Ste. Annes bridge- The crew, Two men- took out ladders, climbed them while positioned it with the tracks and began the ascent.

Theres is where the breaksdiwn in communicateion happened- The Oncomming train was not aware of the man standing on a ladder on the tracks as it approcahed at 55 MPH.

As the trains rounded the bend, the man relaized he had no chance in climbing down the ladder- The other man in The CP rail truck on the south track tried to warnt he northbound train that there was someobody on the track, but there was no where near enough time to stop the freight train.

It hit the ladder, the guy didn't even have enough time to jump onto the structure- all that could be heard was the passing of the freight train, and if you lsitened really careful you could hear the faintest sploosh in the water.

The water is only 2 feet deep there, the rapids however mving really fast

The body was never recovered, oddly enough- Refelctive jacket and all- just dissapeared

SO LEGEND HAS IT

he reapears every now and then, determined to fix that flaw- Many trains get flat wheels on that bridge because suddenly a ladder appears from no where- and causes the crew to react- Sometimes a man- is hobbling along the trakcs- blood stains everywhere- looks as if he was submerged in the water for 100's of years- some people claim to see sea weed on him as he hobbles toward the oncomming train seeking help.

usualy once the light sets on him- he dissapears- or shortly there after- again only in time for the crew to go into emergency.

SO WHAT CAN YOU SAY...

This is what I know- that bridge is bloody well eerie, i'll give it that- and sometimes i'll turn my head really fast and think I may have seen something- But as for bloody people and ladders- never have i seen or had to hav an emergency break executed.

thats my halowe'en story

[espeefoamer]

UP celebrated halloween earlier this year by sending a train from Montclair to Commerce with NO crew and NO locomotives[:0]!

[dharmon]

I have heard stories of crewless UP trains haunting the sideings from Houston to LA looking for thier crew.......[}:)]

'pooky......wooo eee oooo

[Anonymous]

Once, I was driving through a dark village in Poland (the power is out after ten o'clock), and a life size and very realistic crucifix suddenly loomed in my headlights - I just about lost it !!!!!

[Anonymous]

Does anybody know any good stories about ghosts and trains?

Maybe like riding late at night on a locomotive that was once in a wreck. Or, passing a place on the track where a tragedy once unfolded. Or, maybe crossing a bridge where a man was hung during the war.