Railroad Hauntings

That's so cool!

Matt, awesome photos with effects! IMO, this is one of the best posts to air in a very long time. Great quote by Edward Forster.

I don't have much to contribute to "railroad hauntings" at this time as I am still in the design phase of my "scary" layout vignettes. Just a couple of backshop men inquiring about the eerie glow coming from an old house previously thought unoccupied.

Loved it!!!

That is the BEST Halloween layout I've ever seen.

combined with the pumpkin one that you posted the other day, you have 2 of the best displays for the season.  The photography is exceptional, in both.

- walt

In topic but a different angle than a scene.  This all happened in the same year on my Christmas layout and I have no idea how each could have happened.  I posted these images back then and got comments like a mouse, a cat/dog/etc.  No, I don't have mice and no, I don't have a pet animal running around.

This first one is perplexing.  It's on the 2nd level (meaning a person couldn't have walked on it) and defies logic.  How the candy bar could have jumped out on its own - well ???????????????

Look where that's at. remember, this is on the 2nd level:

After running the layout successfully for 3 or 4 WEEKS, a lockon wire just comes unconnected????????????????????????

Again, look where it's at.  Not somewhere where someone could have easily reached it or walked on it.  I put the  boards there so that I could get to it.  It took a LONG time to find it.

This last one is in the same category.  Ran layout for 3 or 4 weeks.  and then out of nowhere, this happens??????

SPOOKY!

- walt

Gremlins??????????

I swore I saw the scale ghosts of ET&WNC conductor Cy Crumley and engineer Sherman Pippin. I snapped some shots, thinking when I looked later, they'd just be of empty track. Halloween came early for the ET&WNC!

They just walked out of the cornfield at the Ensor farm, looked around, and Cy walked down the tracks to near the grade crossing at Sadie. Sherman went directly for # 11, which was sitting cold at the time. A chill came over the air...

As these two were gentlemen in life, I expect no evil from them now. As the locals said after I showed them the photos (taken from my Speed Graphic box camera), "Them ain't haints, they's wouldn't do nary a bit of evil h'yar!"

In other words, such distinguished men wouldn't come back as bad spirits. At the worst, I was told I might get spectral letters of admonishment over some of the working conditions on the layout.

p51 posted:

I swore I saw the scale ghosts of ET&WNC conductor Cy Crumley and engineer Sherman Pippin. I snapped some shots, thinking when I looked later, they'd just be of empty track. Halloween came early for the ET&WNC!

They just walked out of the cornfield at the Ensor farm, looked around, and Cy walked down the tracks to near the grade crossing at Sadie. Sherman went directly for # 11, which was sitting cold at the time. A chill came over the air...

As these two were gentlemen in life, I expect no evil from them now. As the locals said after I showed them the photos (taken from my Speed Graphic box camera), "Them ain't haints, they's wouldn't do nary a bit of evil h'yar!"

In other words, such distinguished men wouldn't come back as bad spirits. At the worst, I was told I might get spectral letters of admonishment over some of the working conditions on the layout.

Only note, one of them should be missing their arm, then they would be perfect for the legend of the hookerman, where the ghost of a brakeman searched for his missing arm along the tracks  (the tracks where  this  reputedly occurred is now a rail to trail, and some say the ghost is still there, others say it disappeared when the tracks were torn up). 

Twilight in Trogdon Yard in Midlothian Virginia. It's Halloween Eve and the Great 611 has encountered two ghosts. Long since scrapped engines Y3 2033 and A 1234 assuming a famous pose.

It's our miniature world. We control the narrative. N&W Steam is on the ready track. Prepared to return to service when needed.

I enjoyed the story and the pictures, Lee! Thanks for posting!

Rusty

bigkid posted:

p51 posted:

I swore I saw the scale ghosts of ET&WNC conductor Cy Crumley and engineer Sherman Pippin.

Only note, one of them should be missing their arm, then they would be perfect for the legend of the hookerman, where the ghost of a brakeman searched for his missing arm along the tracks  (the tracks where  this  reputedly occurred is now a rail to trail, and some say the ghost is still there, others say it disappeared when the tracks were torn up). 

Yeah, but those figures are 3D prints based on photos of two actual people...

Very good gentlemen.  My wife enjoyed it too.  There IS a ghost in my garage.  He was the first owner of this property.  He is a little mischievous.  He will hide tools.  Three witnesses so far.

Bill