Ghost stories for Halloween?

Freaky.  Thank you for starting this thread. Several years ago, a coworker at Steamtown in Scranton, PA commented on how loud the train was that roared through Gouldsboro, where he lived, at night.
Now, he knew our schedule, and the local railroad, Delaware-Lackawanna, ran rarely at that time. Much less at night. I had a heck of a time telling him there was no train. He did not mention if it was steam or diesel.

    Years ago I had a co-worker who could imitate the sounds of a wide variety of things (airplanes, birds, dogs, horses, trains, cars skidding, etc.) to perfection (at one point he put on a one hour show for the company).  He was a salesman and he spent a lot of time on the road in his territory.  For fun he installed a microphone, speakers and amplifier in his car and he would use this to broadcast some of his sound effects from time to time. 

 

   At one stage of his career he found himself having to make very early morning runs from city A to city B in order to meet the demands of two separate sets of clients.  The route he took was a mix of 4 lanes and wide 2 lane roads.  On one of the two lane stretches was a town with a main street which had a gradual rise and fall to what was obviously an abandoned grade crossing. At the crest of the rise he could see over to one side what had to have been the foundations of a long departed depot. 

 

   On his second or third trip, as he passed through the town in the early morning hours, he turned on his broadcast system and made the sound of a steam train blasting through, complete with chuffing and whistle. He had to make this run several times during a three to four month period and he repeated this early morning performance every time he passed through that town.

 

  After the last trip a month or two elapsed before he had to make the run again but this time it was a daylight run.  As he drove through the town he realized he was low on gas so he pulled into a gas station, filled up, and then, as he was paying the attendant, he asked the whereabouts of the local train station.  The attendant said there wasn’t one to which he replied, “That’s funny, I could have sworn I heard a train the last time I came through.”  The attendant gave him a furtive, nervous, sideways look and sort of whispered, “You heard that too?”....and thus another ghost story was born

There is a pretty famous one about a grade crossing accident involving a school bus. The story is that if a car stops on the tracks the "ghosts" of the children killed push it off the tracks. Several people have tried it out. Alas, analysis of the road indicates that the road crosses the tracks on a downward slope even though visually it looks otherwise, but the legend continues.