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Hello CSXrailway............
Now THAT would be cooooooooooooooool to make a Ghost train 
Tiffany
If you check back in about 5 months, there may be more to see. 
On you tube, a 1941 English comedy, "The Ghost Train," it is worth a watch.
Has anyone created an EERIE RR?
The "prototype", for reference 
"Ghost" train 
Jim
Ives made alot of Orange & Black trains and accessories in the late 1920s maybe because the company was turning back into a Pumpkin from Bankrupcy.
I have a small collection of Halloween-themed trains. I put this video together about 6 years ago to showcase some of them:
I also want, some day, to get an MTH 4-6-0 steamer and some Overton cars and re-paint them with glow-in-the-dark paint and populate the Overtons with skeletons from Scenic Express and maybe blacklight interiors.
Andy
I think I may have a 'haunted' engine, but it is BNSF livery and not of any Halloween theme. Does kind of look like a pumpkin though.
sort of a ghost event! I posted these in 2013 - they are from my 2013 Christmas layout. Unexplainable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In this one, the candy bars in the blue gon somehow jumped out of the gon! Really, I did not do it. Forumites suggested everything from mice (nope) to a pet (don't have one). Still scratching my head on this one.
This one shows a lockon wire that came loose. Odd since this part of the layout is completely unavailable to foot traffic.
How could a wire on the transformer just come off?
See - GHOSTS!!!!!
- walt
Here is my favorite haunted train Lionel ever made. 1982's heavily Dungeons and Dragons influenced Black Cave Flyer with glow in the dark parts, add on stickers, die cut Cardboard cave and plastic playmat. It was not the highest quality but I love it.
I can see someone taking a Lionel Fort Knox car and putting a casket in it and making it a hearse with rail trucks! 
I can see someone taking a Lionel Fort Knox car and putting a casket in it and making it a hearse with rail trucks!
Lionel already did it:
6-29636 Vampire Transport Mint Car.
Andy
...and if you are looking for "prototype" ideas you might want to check out this book.
No model efforts, but in a creative writing class years ago, I did a fictional short story
on a Colorado train buried in a tunnel collapse, maybe caused by an avalanche (would
have to dig it out for details), that was discovered, like a "lost mine", years later.
Unlikely, for a passenger train that disappeared, would have been tracked down, as
the rails would have led to it. But the professor remembered it and me in the library
elevator when I went back for some other research some years later. Some cars and
even locomotives were left in the bottoms of Colorado canyons for years after assorted train disasters. My brother visited the site at a rural grade crossing (I think) in
northeast North Carolina where if you stood there on certain nights, a locomotive
headlight would appear down the track and race towards you, to vanish just before
reaching you.
This is / was my Halloween 2014 layout. It is a temporary setup, you have to watch to the end to see its location. I am planning some additions for 2015, have to up the game. The kids really enjoyed it!
Canada and the U.S. have that disappearing headlight story...interesting.
Every haunted train should be required by law to have a N&W hooter whistle fitted:
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