"I had made everything right and was just about to give the starting signal with my whistle, when as I walked alongside the train, glancing into a compartment here and there, whom should I see sitting in one of the carriages?as plainly as ever I saw anything in my life?but the dead man, Mr. Muxloe!" ? from ?B 88? (1871) In the mid-1800s, ghosts and trains seemed to be heading in opposite directions: ghosts disappearing with the superstitious past and trains speeding into a future of mechanical progress. But it did not take long for new ghosts to book passage on the modern railways. After the End of the Line: Railroad Hauntings in Literature and Lore combines fiction, poetry, memoir, news-paper articles, and more to reveal how their cross-influence created horrifying accounts of apparitions on the tracks, haunted train tunnels and switching stations, even phantom locomotives! |