Monster of the Day #3479

Updated on September 25, 2023 By Ken Begg 6 Comments

No matter what you do, you can’t escape Mondays.

T-Fest in Rockwall, TX a week from this coming weekend. Hope to see you there.

Eric Hinkle

Hey, anyone else remember when ghost trains were a big thing in folklore? I’ve looked at some hefty old (from the 50’s) collections of American folklore and they had dozens of stories about them. I’ve even got a book from the 80’s that talks about the one-famous tale of the Lincoln Death Train.
Gamera977

Yeah a lot of great ones though history. I remember Manly Wellman wrote a great one in the John the Balladeer series though I can’t remember the name right now.

PS: Canadian YouTuber Hammerson Peters has some great tales of haunted Canadian and US trains on his YouTube channel. Worth a look if you’re into that sort of stuff.
Gamera977

Ya know I’ve seen a lot and I mean a LOT of great Christmas themed model railroad layouts. Funny I can’t think of ever seeing a Halloween themed one. And with as many creepy railroad stories as Eric pointed out along with lots of songs about haunted trains etc. you’d think they’d be at least one.
Eric Hinkle

Thanks for the recommend. And I think the Wellman story was ‘The Little Black Train’.
Eric Hinkle

I’ve seen a few sorta-horror related ones at some model train shows m brother’s taken me to. Some just have a few little jokes in the diorama the trains run on. Like one set in LA that has trains crossing a bridge over a storm channel, and giant ants are coming out of one of the drain openings in it.
Rodford Smith

What, them, again?

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