Halloween Trains too Halloweeny! Time for a Horror Train!

You should check out H. R. Giger's Ghost Train Nightmare.

A. Wells, I checked that out! That is really something! I like it! I wonder too though, about something like this pic!

@TheGrayGhost posted:

A. Wells, I checked that out! That is really something! I like it! I wonder too though, about something like this pic!

That looks like a decorated steam engine...perhaps somewhere in Mexico for Day of the Dead or Brazil for Carnival.

I agree that in the past Lionel and MTH have kept Halloween on the happy side but with the release of the F19 Halloween Pacific the engine does look more imposing and the sound track is more chilling than in the past.  Now we need to customize our consists to complete the scarier side of Halloween.  The YouTube from Rocky Mountaineer shows this model very well and the layout is outstanding.  Its a very professional production although the Vision Eerie Caboose is still on the light side.

For my existing Halloween engines & rolling stock, I've been exploring the idea of using graphite powder to darken up the relative bright & shiny parts and adding various scary figures in cabs and on and within cars. 

Another idea I explored with Steve at Mr. Muffins was having custom decals made, e.g., "Graveyard Shift," "End of the Line," etc. to cover "Happy Halloween" and other verbiage that doesn't rise to the spirit of Halloween . Custom and good-looking decals are not easily accomplished, however, and having them professionally made is not inexpensive. Decals would be in-lieu of spray painting with the latter rising to the craft and high-level work of Harry Heike, etc.

Every now and again I'll see what I have found to be the scariest O-gauge trains on the secondary market. To date, these included a weathered (with dark Chaulk or graphite) Lionel Commodore Vanderbilt and custom painted/weathered FA-2s (all gray). These monsters appeared downright scary looking, although that's my opinion only.

I ordered the creepy Exorcist car from a previous Lionel catalog and they canceled the production because not many of you supported it by also ordering.