Episode 216 Phantom Trains and a Headless Signalman
So this episode is the first of our 2024 Spooky Season and we begin with a few haunting tales of phantom trains. We begin in Washington DC for a story about Lincoln's Funeral train and how it would reappear at night years afterwards chugging it's way down the tracks attended by skeletons and sepulcheral figures. Then we go to Maco Station in North Carolina to meet a signalman killed during a crash whose signal light would appear again and again forcing the company to put a signalman with two lanterns at Maco Station to stop trains from stopping for the phantom signalman. Then we go back to…
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