Railway Haunting or Hoax – the Making of a Legend

The story is the stuff of urban legend and even today, cars line up at the haunted intersection to see if the legend is true. In the video above you will observer YouTube user DarkHaunts stopping a car 20 to 30 yards away from the tracks, placing the car in neutral gear, turning off the engine and …

Yearly Sightings of a Phantom Train

The cause of the wreck remains unknown. Now, some people say a phantom train appears each year in the early morning hours of August 27. A Flat Tire Fifty years later, on August 27, 1941, a woman was waiting along the road beside the railroad tracks. Her husband had walked into town seeking help after …

Forgotten by the Railroad, A Small Town Sits Abandoned

http://tracks.lionel.com/forgotten-by-the-railroad-a-small-town-sits-abandoned/ With the railroad, Thurmond quickly became the center of commerce, a jem in the area.  A passenger depot, freight station, engine house, water tank, coal and sand towers were constructed, along with a hotel, stores, the New River Banking and Trust Company, an Armour Meat Company meat-packing plant, and restaurants. Houses began to line the river. During …