mboncher opened this issue on Nov 14, 2006 · 11 posts
mboncher posted Tue, 14 November 2006 at 11:25 PM
Thought about putting one in, but felt it would compete too much with the central image. So assume the train is off in the distance behind you and the poor wretch is waving and wailing to it right in front of you trying to flag it down.
I've ideas for doing a few images based on stories from my book on Ghost Trains. There's of course the Legend of John Henry who's said to still haunt the tunnel in which he died. Bill McKeon's Ghost that walked the tracks looking for his lost watch, attacking those who may have stolen it. The Ghost Train of Marshall Pass that threatened an engineer from the grave. Dread 109, the "Hoodoo" engine of the Denver & Rio Grande that took railmen's lives like a gunfighter of old. If I really had tallent, I'd do "The Man in the Derby Hat" of a decomposing phantom who's visage mirrored his body's deterioration through the years. The Express Train to Hell, "witnessed "by 600 people in the 1880s who heard a train that wasn't there pull into the Newark Broad St. Station. The piece de resistance would be to do Lincoln's Funeral Train. It is said that on the anniversary of his funeral, his ghost train runs the tracks from New York towards Springfield, with a massive host of the fallen from the Civil War paying homage as his revenant train passed, never to make it to his restingplace in Springfield. That would be something else to do. The laundry list of models and whatnot I'd need I'm just not going to try it till I'm rich and famous or become a good modeller. :c)
mdb