Casper Ghost Train

And another for Halloween Night.

Happy Halloween

Boo!

New Hope Valley Railroad 

North Carolina

Check out last year's Halloween Post for some videos of the ghost train at Tweetsie

Spooktacular Train Rides

As I was looking for something to post for tomorrow, I found this list of Halloween train rides. Many ended yesterday, some end today and a few go through tomorrow, Halloween day. The list is worldwide.

See Spooktacular Trains. 

Bookmark it for next year!

 Halloween Ghost Train Cake

Hank Snow Train Songs

He is one of my favorites. Long playing and mostly steam. Hank Snow was born in Nova Scotia.

GSMR Preview UPDATED

A preview of out visit to the Great Smoky Mountain Railroad in Bryson City, NC. This was about 4 miles from town at the DeHart Cemetery Road crossing.

Edited to add Alaska Locomotive Photo:
Rev. Paul commented he did a double take thinking it might have been an Alaska Railroad locomotive. No wonder, here is one:

Macon Georgia Terminal Station

Before Terminal Station was built, Southern Railway passengers used this station built in 1886. On the left side of the picture is a trestle that took the Central of Georgia over the Southern tracks. 

Macon's 1916 Terminal Station, at the foot of Cherry Street downtown, is Georgia's grandest surviving railroad station. It was designed in the Beaux Arts style by architect Alfred Fellheimer (1875-1959), who with his partners also designed stations in Cincinnati, Buffalo, and other cities.
The 13-acre station was owned by the Macon Terminal Company, which in turn was owned equally by the Central of Georgia, the Southern Railway, and the Georgia Southern & Florida. Each of these companies, along with the Georgia Railroad, had offices on the upper floors. Other railroads using the station were the Macon, Dublin & Savannah and the Macon & Birmingham.
In 1926-27, the station handled as many as a hundred arrivals/departures each day. The eight tracks for through trains and ten tracks for local trains had platforms between each track. The through tracks were connected by a tunnel.

Terminal Station closed in 1975 and became offices for Georgia Power. The city purchased the building and refurbished it, completed in 2010.

Note the four eagles standing guard over the entrance.

Much more at RailGa.com.

H/T to Dan in Georgia again.

Mineral Bluff Depot

Mineral Bluff is located in Fannin County, GA about five miles NE of Blue Ridge.

The brick depot at Mineral Bluff was constructed in 1887 by the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad , a predecessor of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (now CSX). Located on the now-abandoned line from Blue Ridge, Georgia, to Murphy, N.C., it is only surviving M&NG depot in Georgia.
Using funding from the federal Transportation Enhancement program, the community rehabilitated the building in 2007. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. (News article on the listing.)
Source with more information and photos.

 


H/T to Dan for the link.