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I still mean ghosts of trains
Nov. 19th, 2023 02:47 pmThinking about ghost trains again
I'm obsessed with the idea you could be driving somewhere or walking along somewhere and suddenly there's this sound and this train where there shouldn't be a train any more but it's still running where it remembers running, new roads and paths and housing estates be damned and just as you're expecting to be hit it goes past you (or through even) but you can feel the rush of air, or the steam, you can smell the smoke or the oil or the diesel, you can hear it clanking and whistling as it goes past/through/over you.
I have been reading about haunted railway tunnels but those always seem to involve people who were supposedly hit by trains or died digging out the tunnels or were murdered haunting the tunnels and that isn't what I'm looking for, I want to know about ghost trains. I am sure I did read a few years ago about one in the USA where people have said they have seen trains inside or coming out of a long unused tunnel but now I can't find that.
I do love the idea though that there's some sort of temporal anomaly in/near some train tunnels though. I've heard of other 'time slips' elsewhere and this being one possible explanation for many supposed 'ghosts' but I've read about one near a train tunnel and this being given as a possible reason why they never managed to sink a ventilation shaft to the tunnel, because for some reason time is really screwed up around this hill. (I still can't find anything about 'ghost' trains there even so. Some stuff about hearing train whistles sometimes but that's all).
And then my mind goes back to that Arthur Conan Doyle story The Lost Special and its disappearing train and how that could well involve Moriarty. Also time and the idea of devouring time was a thing I had in my vampire stuff. There is a coherent idea here I know there is, a way to link all of this together, I've just got to work it out (sadly that's much easier said than done).
I would particularly love to put the ghost of D326 in something. Or the Fell locomotive 10100 (I love that butt ugly train so much).
I'm obsessed with the idea you could be driving somewhere or walking along somewhere and suddenly there's this sound and this train where there shouldn't be a train any more but it's still running where it remembers running, new roads and paths and housing estates be damned and just as you're expecting to be hit it goes past you (or through even) but you can feel the rush of air, or the steam, you can smell the smoke or the oil or the diesel, you can hear it clanking and whistling as it goes past/through/over you.
I have been reading about haunted railway tunnels but those always seem to involve people who were supposedly hit by trains or died digging out the tunnels or were murdered haunting the tunnels and that isn't what I'm looking for, I want to know about ghost trains. I am sure I did read a few years ago about one in the USA where people have said they have seen trains inside or coming out of a long unused tunnel but now I can't find that.
I do love the idea though that there's some sort of temporal anomaly in/near some train tunnels though. I've heard of other 'time slips' elsewhere and this being one possible explanation for many supposed 'ghosts' but I've read about one near a train tunnel and this being given as a possible reason why they never managed to sink a ventilation shaft to the tunnel, because for some reason time is really screwed up around this hill. (I still can't find anything about 'ghost' trains there even so. Some stuff about hearing train whistles sometimes but that's all).
And then my mind goes back to that Arthur Conan Doyle story The Lost Special and its disappearing train and how that could well involve Moriarty. Also time and the idea of devouring time was a thing I had in my vampire stuff. There is a coherent idea here I know there is, a way to link all of this together, I've just got to work it out (sadly that's much easier said than done).
I would particularly love to put the ghost of D326 in something. Or the Fell locomotive 10100 (I love that butt ugly train so much).
