The distant sight of a steam-locomotive rolling across the open prairie is bound to bring about nostalgia for a time long past. But when you read these stories of unquiet railroad ghosts and their tragedy-struck trains, you'll notice the eerie embrace of the unexplained mixed into your quiet reverie.

Haunted Rails is filled with stories of ghost trains, haunted locomotives, and spectral cabooses. Within these pages, you'll read the riveting stories of crashes, accidents, and the ghosts that linger in old railroad stations and museums. You'll discover engineers, conductors, and brakeman who perished on the job but have yet to cross over into the light.

This book includes dozens of true ghost stories that take place on railroad lines both near and far, including:

Flinderation Tunnel on the B&O and CSX mainline
An eerie premonition on Canadian Pacific Railway
The strange tale of caboose number 1908 of the Louisville and Nashville (L&N) Railroad
The apparition in the Railroad Museum of the Penn Central Railroad
The ghost of the Nickel Plate Road (NKP) Museum
The demon train of the Scottish Highlands
The Santa Ana ghost train
Abraham Lincoln's haunted funeral train
Engineer Brit Craft's heroic deeds outside of Atchison, Kansas
The Silverpilen, also known as the haunted steel bullet train of Sweden
The haunted caboose of Kentucky
President Grover Cleveland's brush with the Maco light on the Atlantic Coast Line
Author Philip K. Dick's paranormal encounter on the North Pacific Coast Railroad
The paranormal aftermath of the tsunami that destroyed the Hilo Railroad in Hawaii