[PDF] Ghost Trains eBook

Author : Matthew L. Swayne
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2019-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738761516

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50 chilling true stories of haunted trains and ghostly workers from the steam locomotive era to the modern day Discover dozens of hauntings on railroads in 19 US states as well as in Canada and the UK, including the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line, Nickel Plate Road, Pennsylvania Railroad, and many more. Haunted Rails tells the tale of a possessed caboose on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and a Civil War–era rebel ghost train; museum hauntings at the Georgia State Railroad Museum in Savannah and the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; apparitions at Vancouver's Canadian Pacific Waterfront Station and Nashville's Union Station; and the haunted presidential trains of Abraham Lincoln and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Filled with ghost trains, spectral switchmen, and frightening facts, Haunted Rails is a spine-tingling ride to the other side that you don't want to miss. All aboard!

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Publisher : TLC Publishing (VA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781883089764

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Ninety ghostly tales of the rails are illustrated with period photos and artwork specially commissioned for this volume. Tony Reevy's interesting writing and careful research bring these legends of yesteryear to life in this strangely entertaining book; feel the shivers run up and down your spine.

Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0771085389

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National Bestseller In Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Theroux recreates an epic journey he took thirty years ago, a giant loop by train (mostly) through Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. In short, he traverses all of Asia top to bottom, and end to end. In the three decades since he first travelled this route, Asia has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed, China has risen, India booms, Burma slowly smothers, and Vietnam prospers despite the havoc unleashed upon it the last time Theroux passed through. He witnesses all this and more in a 25,000 mile journey, travelling as the locals do, by train, car, bus, and foot. His odyssey takes him from Eastern Europe, still hungover from Communism, through tense but thriving Turkey, into the Caucasus, where Georgia limps back toward feudalism while its neighbour Azerbaijan revels in oil-driven capitalism. As he penetrates deeper into Asia’s heart, his encounters take on an otherworldly cast. The two chapters that follow show us Turkmenistan, a profoundly isolated society at the mercy of an almost comically egotistical dictator, and Uzbekistan, a ruthless authoritarian state. From there, he retraces his steps through India, Mayanmar, China, and Japan, providing his penetrating observations on the changes these countries have undergone. Brilliant, caustic, and totally addictive, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is Theroux at his very best.

Author : Arnold Ridley
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573609329

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Mystery/Thriller Arnold Ridley Characters: 7 male, 4 female Interior Set A long running success in London and on Broadway and packed with thrills, chills and laughter. In Maine near the Canadian border there's a legend of a phantom locomotive sweeping through a peaceful village leaving death in its wake. Rum and narcotic runners use this and the villagers' superstition to their advantage but a not as incompetent as he seems detective clears up the mystery of the sp

Author : Roger Hurn
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1781471223

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The Ignite series of reading books, are for children and young adults aged 10 to 14 and over who are struggling to read. Each book has been carefully written for those with a reading age of approximately 6 to 6.5, but are packed full of adventure and brilliant illustrations to really grab the reader interest.Zak and his friend Anna are on a quest to find the scariest ghost train they can. They think they may have found it at the Out of This World funfair.

Author : James P Bell
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,37 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780785830832

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Ghost Trains features a new selection of James P. Bell's evocative black and white photographs of the remains of the American steam railroad. The book contains accounts of twenty-three iconic railroad journeys from around the country, fully illustrated with Bell's atmospheric images of trains under full steam, rusting locos, derelict branch lines, roundhouses, depots, and the rotting remains of once mighty rail tracks. Ghost Trains is a visual feast for any one interested in American steam, and its once-mighty railroad network.

Author : Clarissa Vazquez
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2014-11-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781502406248

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From Clarissa Vazquez, author of "Ghosts of the Heart: A Paranormal Investigator's Journey" and "Ghost Hunting in Colorado: Theories for World-Wide Investigators" comes an exciting look into the world of ghost trains! Since the invention of the locomotive, stories of ghostly trains and haunted tracks have frightened and fascinated railfans and paranormal enthusiasts alike! Phantom Trains and Haunted Rails of the U.S. explores 37 of the most popular tales, mysteries, and ghostlore surrounding these events!

Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 22,8 MB
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1773065793

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The story of a young Chinese girl who arrives in North America only to discover that her father has died building the railway. This powerful, unforgettable and multi-award-winning tale is based on the lives of the Chinese who settled on the west coast of North America in the early 1900s. Left behind in China by her father, who has gone to North America to find work, Choon-yi has made her living by selling her paintings in the market. When her father writes one day and asks her to join him, she joyously sets off, only to discover that he has been killed. Choon-yi sees the railway and the giant train engines that her father died for, and she is filled with an urge to paint them. But her work disappoints her until a ghostly presence beckons her to board a train where she meets the ghosts of the men who died building the railway. She is able to give them peace by returning their bones to China where they were born. Ghostly, magical and yet redeeming, this tale by Paul Yee is superbly illustrated by Harvey Chan. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)

Author : Ray Hamilton
Publisher : Summersdale
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 39,57 MB
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1783725508

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Whether you pine for the romantic age of the steam engine, thrill at the speeds of today’s superfast trains, this book offers a fantastic, whistle-stop tour of train travel.

Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1409052346

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SOMETIMES you come across a lofty railway viaduct, marooned in the middle of a remote country landscape. Or a crumbling platform from some once-bustling junction buried under the buddleia. If you are lucky you might be able to follow some rusting tracks, or explore an old tunnel leading to...well, who knows where? Listen hard. Is that the wind in the undergrowth? Or the spectre of a train from a golden era of the past panting up the embankment? These are the ghosts of The Trains Now Departed. They are the railway lines, and services that ran on them that have disappeared and gone forever. Our lost legacy includes lines prematurely axed, often with a gripping and colourful tale of their own, as well as marvels of locomotive engineering sent to the scrapyard, and grand termini felled by the wrecker's ball. Then there are the lost delights of train travel, such as haute cuisine in the dining car, the grand expresses with their evocative names, and continental boat trains to romantic far-off places. The Trains Now Departed tells the stories of some of the most fascinating lost trains of Britain, vividly evoking the glories of a bygone age. In his personal odyssey around Britain Michael Williams tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of the men and women who operated them and the colourful trains that ran on them. It is a journey into the soul of our railways, summoning up a magic which, although mired in time, is fortunately not lost for ever. THIS EDITION REVISED AND UPDATED TO INCLUDE MAPS.