Haunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits

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Llewellyn Worldwide, Sep 8, 2019 - Body, Mind & Spirit - 216 pages
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50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day

Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!

 

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Contents

GHOST TRAINS HAUNTED ENGINES
HAUNTED CABOOSES
HAUNTED RAILROAD MUSEUMS
Conductors Brakemen Workers and Accident Victims
TRAVELOGUE FOR A TRIP ON THE HAUNTED

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About the author (2019)

Matthew L. Swayne (State College, PA) is a journalist who currently works as a research writer at Penn State. He has also worked on writing projects with Paranormal State's Eilfie Music. Matthew is the author of five books, including Haunted World War II.

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TitleHaunted Rails: Tales of Ghost Trains, Phantom Conductors, and Other Railroad Spirits
AuthorMatthew L. Swayne
PublisherLlewellyn Worldwide, 2019
ISBN0738761516, 9780738761510
Length216 pages
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Body, Mind & Spirit / Supernatural (incl. Ghosts)
  
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