Chapter 1
Abraham Lincoln Ghost Train
Black, Andrew. “The Lincoln Ghost Train.” Mask of Reason (blog). https://maskofreason.wordpress.com/the-book-of-mysteries/eerie-ohio/the-lincoln-ghost-train/.
Goodheart, Adam. “How Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train Journey Made History.” National Geographic, April 18, 2015. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150418-abraham-lincoln-funeral-train-railroad-civil-war-history/.
Lamkin, Virginia. “Lincoln’s Phantom Train.” Seeks Ghosts (blog), November 4, 2014. https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2014/11/lincolns-phantom-train.html.
Nosowitz, Dann. “The Strange History and Future of Lincoln’s Funeral Train.” Atlas Obscura, April 14, 2015. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-history-and-future-of-lincoln-s-funeral-train.
Selzer, Adam. Ghosts of Lincoln: Discovering His Paranormal Legacy. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2015. p. 193–224.
Rebel Ghost Train Rises Again
Jacobs, Jack. “Ghost light legend haunts King William railroad crossing.” Virginia Gazette, October 25, 2017. http://www.vagazette.com/va-vg-tr-ghost-light-1025-story.html.
“The Light at Cohoke Crossing - King William County.” The Haunted Commonwealth. May 20, 2010. http://hauntedva.blogspot.com/2010/05/light-at-cohoke-crossing-king-william.html.
Bravehaunts: The Ghost Trains of Scotland
Adams, Paul. Little Book of Ghosts. Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2014. p. 136–157.
“The Tay Bridge Disaster.” Haunted Scotland Investigates. August 22, 2013. http://haunted-scotland.co.uk/the-tay-bridge-disaster/.
Holder, Geoff. Haunted Dundee. Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2012. p. 75–76.
“Haunted Locations.” Must See Scotland. https://must-see-scotland.com/haunted-locations/.
Rannachan, Tom. Psychic Scotland: A Journey to the Other Side of Scotland. Edinburgh, UK: Black & White Publishing, 2007.
“Ghost Trains of Great Britain.” Strange Days. October 23, 2007. http://www.strangedayz.co.uk/2007/10/ghost-trains-of-great-britain.html.
A Time-Traveling Ghost Train?
“Fairytale or Fact: The Wales ‘Spectral Train’ Mystery.” Phantoms and Monsters. December 10, 2015. https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2015/12/fairytale-or-fact-wales-spectral-train.html.
Ghost Train of the Santa Ana
“Anaheim to Santa Ana.” Abandoned Rails. http://www.abandonedrails.com/Anaheim_to_Santa_Ana.
“Your Nightmares Were True: The Ghost Train on the Abandoned Tracks in Santa Ana.” Backpackerverse. https://backpackerverse.com/abandoned-train-santa-ana/.
Do Famous Sci-Fi Writers Dream of Locomotive Spirits?
Dick, Anne. The Search for Philip K. Dick. San Francisco, California: Tachyon Publications, 1995. p. 62.
Ely, Nicole. “Marin’s Haunted History.” Patch, October 31, 2012. https://patch.com/california/sanrafael/marin-s-haunted-history.
“The Engineer’s Revenge.” Fairweather Lewis (blog). October 6, 2012. https://fairweatherlewis.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/the-engineers-revenge/.
Ghost Train or Eerie Railroad Premonition?
“The Phantom Train of Medicine Hat.” Hammerson Peters. http://hammersonpeters.com/?p=725.
Schlosser, S. E. “Ghost Train: An Alberta Ghost Story.” American Folklore. http://americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/ghost_train.html.
Scary Scandinavian Ghost Train
Grundhauser, Eric. “The Silver Arrow, the Real Ghost Train Haunting the Stockholm Metro.” Atlas Obscura, October 07, 2015. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-silver-arrow-the-real-ghost-train-haunting-the-stockholm-metro.
Schneider, Kate. “The ghost train that haunted Stockholm.” News.com.au. https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/the-ghost-train-that-haunted-stockholm/news-story/c3c550bf0d53aef2ba9efa60646c39ab.
Chapter 2
“Haunted Cabooses.” Journal of the Bizarre (blog). March 31, 2018. http://web.archive.org/web/20180417102330/http://www.journalofthebizarre.com/2018/03/haunted-cabooses.html.
The Canyon Motel. http://thecanyonmotel.com/williams_az_motel_caboose_rooms_suites.html.
Jameson S. “Haunted Lake County: Featherbed Inn.” YouTube video, 7:15, May 23, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoSeDz8NI-o.
Chapter 3
The Railroaders Memorial Museum
“Altoona Railroad Museum Documents Ghost Hauntings in Altoona.” Pennsylvania Mountains of Attractions. http://www.pennsylvania-mountains-of-attractions.com/ghost.html.
Railroaders Memorial Museum. https://www.railroadcity.com/.
Also based on personal interviews with ghost hunters of JABA Paranormal.
Has a Haunted Hobo
Boarded a Railroad Museum Without a Pass?
Cusumano, Katherine. “10 Supposedly Haunted Museums.” Mental Floss, October 29, 2015. http://mentalfloss.com/article/70356/10-supposedly-haunted-museums.
Mad River Museum. http://www.madrivermuseum.org/about.html.
Martin, Douglas. “Steam Train Maury, 5-Time Hobo King, Is Dead at 89.” New York Times, November 23, 2006. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/us/23graham.html.
“Railroad Museum to Host Paranormal Investigation.” Shop Bellevue Ohio. September 26, 2014. http://www.shopbellevueohio.com/information/blog/item/railroad-museum-to-host-paranormal-investigation.
Waves of Paranormal Phenomena
Cousins, Blake. “Third Phase of the Moon.” YouTube video, 5:33, October 31, 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMycEjY5Xb4.
Haunted Earth Ghost Videos (blog). April 3, 2012. http://hauntedearthghostvideos.blogspot.com/2012/04/here-is-video-sent-to-me-by-poster.html.
“History of Hawaii Consolidated Railroad—Laupahoehoe Train Museum.” Laupahoehoe Train Museum. http://www.thetrainmuseum.com/history.html.
Of History, Heritage, and Hauntings
Brunswick Heritage Museum. http://brunswickmuseum.org/.
“Haunted Brunswick Maryland: Frederick County/Brunswick Heritage Museum Ghost Expedition 2017.” Maryland Paranormal Research (blog). http://blog.maryland-paranormal.com/post/59830542767/haunted-brunswick-maryland-frederick-county.
Maryland Paranormal Research. “Brunswick Heritage Museum Ghost Expedition 2017/Frederick County (‘Dave’).” YouTube video, 1:20, October 22, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4FQqbXshsE.
Mason Dixon Ghost Hunters. http://www.masondixonghosthunters.com/.
“Maryland Museum Haunted by Ghosts?” NBC Washington. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Maryland-Museum-Haunted-By-Ghosts-97792664.html.
National Railroad Museum Features a Five-Star Haunting
“Investigations.” Fox Valley Ghost Hunters. http://www.fvghosthunters.com/investigations/.
McMahon, Todd. “Railroad museum expansion on long-distance track.” Green Bay Gazette, August 10, 2016. https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/2016/08/10/museum-expansion-long-distance-track/88421872/.
Midwestern Paranormal Investigative Network. “National Railroad Museum—Green Bay, WI.” https://mpinetwork.wordpress.com/mpininvestigations/national-railroad-museum-green-bay-wi/.
Georgia State Railroad Museum
“Most Haunted Places in America: Roundhouse Railroad Museum.” Ghosteyes. http://web.archive.org/.web/20110514114137/http://www.ghosteyes.com/haunts-roundhouse-railroad-museum.
“Georgia State Railroad Museum.” Savannah. http://www.savannah.com/the-roundhouse-railroad-museum/.
“Savannah Roundhouse Railroad Museum.” Trolley Tours. https://www.trolleytours.com/savannah/roundhouse-railroad-museum.
Restless Spirits in the Sleeping Quarters
Gallagher, Margaret. “Is the Port Moody Station Museum haunted?” CBC. October 31, 2016. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/is-the-port-moody-station-museum-haunted-1.3828869.
Northern Paranormal Investigations. http://www.northernparanormalinvestigations.ca/welcome.html.
“Haunting at the Museum?” Port Moody Museum. April 4, 2010. http://portmoodymuseum.org/2010/04/09/haunting-at-the-museum/.
Chapter 4
Was a Weird Specter Seen at a Train Yard Sent to Warn Workers, Residents?
Keel, John. The Mothman Prophecies. Avondale Estates, GA: IllumiNet Press, 1991.
“Mothman.” Roadside America. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12036.
“The Man in Black: The Mystery of Pennsylvania’s Flood Visitor, a Spooky Stranger that Predicted Disaster.” Week in Weird. January 1, 2014. http://weekinweird.com/2014/01/30/the-man-in-black-pennsylvanias-flood-visitor/.
Civil War Spirits Haunt Gettysburg Engine House
Ghost Adventures. “Gettysburg.” Season 4, Episode 1. Aired September 17, 2010. Daily Motion. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqhiur_ghost-adventures-gettysburg_shortfilms.
Nesbitt, Mark. Civil War Ghost Trails: Stories from America’s Most Haunted Battlefields. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 2012. p. 97–106.
Clschauer. “Ghosts of Gettysburg—The Engine House.” YouTube video, 2:53, November 13, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yMK_wZYrtk.
Tracking Ogden’s Historic Railroad Past and Its Haunted Present
DeVoy, Beverly. “Many a Ghost Haunts Ogden, According to Area Legends.” Deseret News. October 28, 1991. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/190629/MANY-A-GHOST-HAUNTS-OGDEN-ACCORDING-TO-AREA-LEGENDS.html.
Free, Cathy. “Cathy Free: Friends seek out ghostly haunts.” Deseret News. October 27, 2010. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/700076879/Friends-seek-out-ghostly-haunts.html.
Jones, Jennifer. “The Death Trunk of Haunted Union Station.” The Dead History, January 18, 2016. https://www.thedeadhistory.com/haunted-utah/death-trunk-union-station/.
———. “Frank Yentzer: The Ghost of Ogden’s Union Station.” The Dead History, February 19, 2013. https://www.thedeadhistory.com/haunted-utah/frank-yentzer-ghost-ogdens-union-station/.
———. Ghosts of Ogden, Brigham City and Logan. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2017.
The chapter is also based on personal email correspondences between Jennifer Jones and the author.
Ghosts on the Waterfront
Christensen, Jo-Anne. Ghost Stories of British Columbia. Toronto: Hounslow Press, 2000. p. 95.
Daily Hive. “The Most Haunted Building in Vancouver: Waterfront Station.” October 31, 2012. http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/haunted-vancouver-waterfront-station.
Sutherland, Joel. Haunted Canada 6: More Terrifying True Stories. Toronto: Scholastic Canada, 2016. p. 36–40.
Tubes of Terror: The UK’s Supernatural Subway System
Barnicoat, Becky. “9 Creepy-As-Hell London Underground Ghost Stories.” Buzzfeed, May 22, 2017. https://www.buzzfeed.com/beckybarnicoat/incredibly-creepy-stories-about-the-london-underground?utm_term=.piVMjWBr9L#.cown4a1Vzv.
“Bethnal Green Underground Tube Station, London Underground Ghosts.” Haunted Rooms. https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/bethnal-green-underground-tube-station-london.
Strunck, Clara. “Spotting a GHOST on the tube might make you think twice about your commute.” Daily Star, June 2, 2016. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/520156/Ghost-spotted-London-underground-tube-viral-video.
“5 Most Haunted London Underground Stations.” Top 5s. June 11, 2018. https://www.top5s.co.uk/5-most-haunted-london-underground-stations/.
Union Station and the Ghost of Abigail
“Ghosts at Union Station Hotel.” Ghost Village. http://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2008/02042008.shtml.
Lombard, Cherish. “Room 711 at Union Station is permanently occupied.” WKRN, October 26, 2017. http://www.wkrn.com/special-reports/haunted-tennessee/room-711-at-union-station-is-permanently-occupied/1077055802.
Chapter 5
The Haunted Horseshoe Curve
“The Legend of the Horseshoe Curve Tunnel.” Discovery PA (blog). October 3, 2014. http://discoverypa.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-legend-of-horseshoe-curve-tunnel.html.
Colin Kurtz. “3 Guys Go Ghost Hunting in the Horseshoe Curve Tunnel, Altoona, PA.” YouTube video, 9:29, October 17, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVQXSq8S7No&t=1s.
Tunnel of Terror—Sensabaugh Tunnel’s Dark Past
May Shed Light on Its Current Paranormal Popularity
KPR Crew. “Legends of Sensabaugh Tunnel.” https://kprcrew.com/portfolio/legends-of-sensabaugh-tunnel/.
Knox Paranormal Researchers. “Baby Crying EVP in Sensabaugh Tunnel.” YouTube video, 0:17, March 16, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MewiDRFwKUM.
Additional Source: Police Report # 0370300, Mount Carmel, Tennessee.
Flinderation and the Supernatural Railroad Nation
Anderson, Michael. “Paranormal Investigation and Flinderation Tunnel.” Ghosts and Stories. https://ghostsandstories.com/paranormal-investigation-at-flinderation-tunnel.html.
Flinderation Tunnel photos. Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/pg/Flinderation-Tunnel-144572778961793/photos/?tab=album&album_id=144573035628434.
“Flinderation Tunnel.” Haunts and History (blog). https://web.archive.org/web/20140521235058/hauntsandhistory.blogspot.com/2011/11/flinderation-tunnel.html.
Chapter 6
Eerie Echoes—The Return of the Red Arrow
Altoona Mirror. “Locals Tell Story of the Red Arrow 70 Years After Railroad Disaster.” February 17, 2017. Accessed December 13, 2017. http://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2017/02/locals-tell-story-of-the-red-arrow-70-years-after-railroad-disaster/.
“Altoona, Pennsylvania Ghost Sightings.” Ghosts of America. http://www.ghostsofamerica.com/1/Pennsylvania_Altoona_ghost_sightings2.html.
Nesbitt, Mark and Patty A. Wilson. The Big Book of Pennsylvania Ghost Stories. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2008. p. 150–152.
McIlnay, Dennis. The Wreck of the Red Arrow: An American Train Tragedy. Hollidaysburg, PA: Seven Oaks Press, 2010.
“The Wreck of the Red Arrow.” Patty Wilson (blog). September 22, 2011. Accessed December 12, 2017. http://patty-wilson.blogspot.com/2011/09/wreck-of-red-arrow.html.
Dead Railroad Men Do Tell Tales
“Malvern.” Haunted Places. http://hauntednorthamerica.net/all-locations-listing/all-locations-usa-ne/malvern/.
“Restless Spirits at Duffy’s Cut.” Phantoms and Monsters. July 13, 2017. https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2017/07/restless-spirits-at-duffys-cut.html.
“Seeking the Ghosts of Duffy’s Cut.” Phantoms and Monsters. August 20, 2010. http://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2010/08/seeking-ghosts-of-duffys-cut.html.
Rafferty, Meghan. “Grandfather’s ghost story leads to mysterious mass grave.” CNN, August 24, 2010. http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/08/24/pennsylvania.graves.mystery/index.html.
“The Haunting at Duffy’s Cut.” Seeks Ghost (blog). May 12, 2013. https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-haunting-at-duffys-cut.html.
The Legends of America’s Most Haunted Railroad Crossing
“Chilling Tales of Haunted San Antonio.” Express News. October 29, 2017. https://www.expressnews.com/sa300/article/Chilling-tales-of-haunted-San-Antonio-12314236.php.
“The Legend of the Haunted Railroad Tracks.” Ghost City Tours. https://ghostcitytours.com/san-antonio/haunted-places/haunted-railroad-tracks/.
Spirit Photography Captures Eerie Signs of Haunted Railroad History
“Dickenson Level Rail Crossing.” Hamilton Paranormal. http://hamiltonparanormal.com/railtrail1.html.
“The Haunting of the Sydenham Rd. Rail Bridge, Dundas, Ontario.” Hamilton Paranormal. February 8, 2003. http://hamiltonparanormal.com/bridge10.html.
The Case of the Chatsworth Disaster and the Glowing Grave
“The Chatsworth Disaster: The haunted history of Illinois’ worst train disaster.” American Hauntings. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/chatsworth/.
Harper’s Weekly. “The Illinois Railroad Accident.” August 20, 1887. http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/wkill.html.
The Screaming Bridge
Criscuolo, Nina. “Avon’s Haunted Bridge: The Truth Behind the Tales.” WISH TV, October 27, 2017. http://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/avons-haunted-bridge-the-truth-behind-the-tales_2018040306543654/1096489973.
“Avon’s Haunted Bridge.” Town of Avon official. http://www.avongov.org/egov/documents/1446048459_62506.pdf.
Chapter 7
Railroad Ghost Story Gets Presidential Seal of Approval
Burke, James C. “The Legend of Joe Baldwin.” Wilmington Railroad Museum. http://www.wrrm.org/the-legend-of-joe-baldwin.html.
“The Maco Light.” North Carolina Ghosts. https://northcarolinaghosts.com/coast/maco-light/.
Preik, Brooks Newton. Haunted Wilmington. Wilmington, North Carolina: Banks Channel Books, 1995. p. 23–28.
Steelman, Ben. “Brunswick’s ‘True’ Ghost Story.” The Star News. https://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20081010/the-maco-light-brunswicks-true-ghost-story.
The Paulding Light
“Paulding Light.” Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/paulding-light.
Goodrich, Marcia. “Just in Time for Halloween: Michigan Tech Students Solve the Mystery of the Paulding Light.” Michigan Tech news, October 28, 2010. http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2010/october/just-time-for-halloween-michigan-tech-students-solve-mystery-paulding-light.html.
“The Paulding Light.” The Paulding Light. November 25, 2013. http://www.pauldinglight.com/.
A Spectral Brakeman Who Never Takes a Break
Kelemen, Ed. Pennsylvania’s Haunted Railroads. New Florence, PA: Nemelke Publishing, 2018.
1888 Ghost Rider of the Rails
Clark, Jerome. Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. p. 357.
A Not-So-Thankful Thanksgiving Day Haunting
Jones, Jennifer. “The Thanksgiving Ghost.” The Dead History. November 23, 2017. Accessed January 28, 2018. https://www.thedeadhistory.com/haunted-america/thanksgiving-ghost/.
Also based on personal email communications between Jones and the author.
He May Have Died at His Station but He Left a Restless Spirit
Clark, Jerome. Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005. p. 110.
“Brition S. Craft.” Find A Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/54352579/brition-s-craft.
KMBC 9. “Ghost Stories: Atchison Railroad Legend.” YouTube video, 2:52, October 31, 2008. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHgopiGBFk.
The Natural State Boasts Some Supernatural Railroad Tales
“Things to Do—Haunted Arkansas.” Arkansas. https://www.arkansas.com/things-to-do/uniquely-arkansas/haunted-arkansas/mysterious-lights/.
“A mysterious light floating in the trees of Gurdon, Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.” Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gurdon-light.
“Crossett Light.” Encyclopedia of Arkansas. March 7, 2011. https://www.tripsavvy.com/gurdon-light-2211874.
Galiana, Amanda. Trip Savvy, July 29, 2017. https://www.tripsavvy.com/gurdon-light-2211874.
Taylor, Troy. “Haunted Arkansas—The Gurdon Light.” Prairie Ghosts. http://www.prairieghosts.com/gurdon.html.
Northern Spook Light: Canada’s Famous Railway Ghost Light
“10 Strange Unsolved Train Mysteries.” North Atlantic (blog). September 5, 2017. https://northatlanticblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/ghost-train-the-st-louis-light/.
Riemer, Taryn. “Ghost Train Story Haunts Small Saskatchewan Community.” The Western Producer. https://www.producer.com/2014/10/ghost-train-story-haunts-small-saskatchewan-community/.
The Suitor House: Canada’s Spirit Weigh Station
Bell, David. “These could be the spookiest spots in Calgary’s most ‘haunted’ neighbourhood.” CBC News, October 31, 2017. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-ghost-haunted-house-inglewood-johanna-lane-1.4380114.
“Suitor House.” Paranormal Studies & Inquiry Canada. http://psican.org/index.php/ghosts-a-hauntings/alberta/391-the-suitor-house.
Dead Worker’s Ghost Gives Whole New Meaning to Being “Fired”
“Dead Workman’s Apparition.” Phantoms and Monsters (blog). September 9, 2016. https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2016/09/dead-workmans-apparition.html?.
Conclusion
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. “Railroad Space and Railroad Time.” New German Critique 14 (Spring 1978): 31–40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/i221171.