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**It's not alone. The Union Pride was attacked by Confederate cavalry and crashed into a years-long fireball, due to being fuelled by ghost rock; in the D20 edition, the train may end up puffing into town one night and the ghosts of the soldiers will come out and do much the same thing as the Night Train vampires. And there are more; the supplement ''Saddle Sore'' has the Nightingale, which picks you up from a legitimate railroad station and leaves you at your destination after messing with your PCs, and leaves you at a closed station with no-one expecting a train at that time. It soon becomes apparent that you just fell for the old PhantomTrucker routine.
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* Music/TheStranglers released a song called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haTi0eQegso Ghost Train]]'' on their 1984 album Dreamtime. The song was a metaphor for the lack of teamwork and demand of all the band members to be on top.
* Music/BillionBabies had one song called ''Ghost Train'', which the Tweetsie Railroad seem to have adopted as the unofficial soundtrack for their yearly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgTkCUiXcbo Hallowe'en ghost train]].
* Music/HankSnow sang of ghost trains racing each other through the night sky.
* Music/Madness had ''Waiting for the Ghost Train", about South Africa's apparent immobility on the issue of apartheid.
* Many artists have released a song called "Ghost Train". Searching the phrase on Youtube will yeild a nightmarish amount of results.
* Music/BillionBabies had one song called ''Ghost Train'', which the Tweetsie Railroad seem to have adopted as the unofficial soundtrack for their yearly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgTkCUiXcbo Hallowe'en ghost train]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'' has a variation of this in the ''AWE'' DLC: the Eagle Limited Train Car is an [[ArtifactOfPower altered item]] created from the aftermath of a supernatural terrorist incident that caused it to derail, killing 60 passengers and injuring many more. The twist is that it's not malevolent nor haunted by the deceased -- ''the train itself'' formed a sort of sapience from the incident and has been so consumed with guilt that its interior has become an odd PocketDimension, reliving its own crash over and over again.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' titled Ghost Train Percy tells about a ghost train to Thomas but he doesn’t believe him. Later when Parcy was going through a farm he accidentally crashes in a cart full of lime and gets covered in a white substance. Seeing the possibility in this he decides to scare Thomas before he gets cleaned up in the end.
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* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' has a level take place on a train that's been possessed by a demon. The bad news is you have [[TimedMission only a few minutes]] to get through ''and'' kill the demon that's infested the engine, but the good news is Zangetsu is rampaging through the level with you and he can [[CrutchCharacter tear any opposition apart effortlessly]].
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** The new LEGO "Hidden Side" series gave us "Ghost Train Express". Unlike the previous one, this looks like modern times derelict cargo train. Its face consists of patterns on front windows looking like its eyes, and hidden jaw that it can open. On top of that, ''it has wings'' and is driven by a driver possessed by a ghost. Spooky.
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* Alan Rails from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is a member of the intergalactic SuperTeam the Vindicators. Having survived a derailed train crash that killed his parents, Alan was gifted with the power to summon ghost-trains.
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* The Creator/TherenceHill LiveActionAdaptation of ''Comicbook/LuckyLuke'' had an episode about a ghost train. The train turns out to be fake, but at the end [[spoiler:when Luke mentions the person who helped him solved the case, he's told she's been dead for years]]...
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Trying not to feel like you did
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Moving up until I go go-o
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Although trains are usually seen as fun and lovable machines, they can be used for sinister purposes too. A Ghost Train is a train that has supernatural qualities, and is usually used to carry around ghosts or other monsters, scare people, or for other creepy purposes.
This trope, often seen in folklore, usually takes the form of an old steam train with a dark, twisted appearance. It may be inhabited by a ghostly conductor and passengers, and it may have been either created by the ghosts, or a normal train that they possess for their own ends. Alternatively, the train itself may be fully sentient.
It may often be seen in kid friendly works, especially those with DefangedHorrors, because in a way, it replaces the more conventional fun that trains bring with a more spooky sort of fun.
May be part of a CircusOfFear, or even just associated with CreepyCircusMusic.
Compare GhostShip and SinisterSubway. See also AfterlifeExpress, which is for spirits going to the afterlife instead of staying on Earth, and may be more benevolent than this trope.
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* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
** ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': A reporter invokes the trope by describing a spectral locomotive his grandmother used to tell stories about when he was a boy.
** In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon and Winston explore the haunted catacombs beneath New York, one of the apparitions being a ghost train. Egon was quick to identify the train as being the old New York Central "City of Albany" that was accidentally derailed in 1920, killing over 100 people.
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* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpilen Silverpilen]]'' (Swedish for "Silver Arrow") was a train used by the Stockholm Metro from the 1960s to the 1990s. Although it's really just a rare train of unusual design, some people alleged that the train was supernatural; claiming that it picks up passengers at night, who either disappear forever or only return after a long period of time (weeks, months, or even years).
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statesville,_North_Carolina Statesville, North Carolina]] is said to have a ghost train that visits on the anniversary of a horrific 1891 crash in which a train plummeted from a high bridge and about 30 people were killed. Witnesses on the anniversaries of the wreck have heard screeching train wheels, screaming passengers, and the crash itself. Many have also reported seeing a man in a railroad uniform carrying a gold watch who vanished before their eyes. [[http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/north.carolina.ghost.train/index.html A spectator watching for it on the anniversary in 2010 was caught on the railroad bridge by a modern train and killed]], raising the eeriness of the site.
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* Creator/CliveCussler's Dirk Pitt novel ''Literature/NightProbe''. While investigating the disappearance of a train, Dirk learns of stories of a "ghost train" that appears on stormy nights and disappears when it reaches a bridge. He later discovers that the story is a hoax, carried out by a train's headlight and a PA system broadcasting train noises being pulled along a cable suspended above the ground.
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* The ''Creator/{{YTV}}'' show ''Seriously Weird'' had the gang encountering a real ghost of a boy who had died in a train accident. The ghost uses his powers to change the diner that they are at, into a real life ghost train (the same one he died in), and sends it headed towards impending doom.
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* The Music/{{Gorillaz}} song ''[[https://youtu.be/1YXbG5UKN_g Ghost Train]]'' only refers to this in his lyrics, but it's about ''something'' that goes after narrator's soul, and how he's prepared to fight against it. Being the "ghost train" part said after every line of the song, probably the narrator refers to the train itself that goes after him.
-->''Here they come to steal my soul
(Ghost train)
Wait it out until I know
(Ghost train)
Trying not to feel like you did
(Ghost train)
Moving up until I go go-o
(Ghost train)''
* Website/YouTube composers Derek and Brandon Fiechter have a song called [[https://youtu.be/ejwF8antyE8 Ghost Train]] as part of their CreepyCircusMusic series. The story in the video's description describes a haunted train that moves on its own.
* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acx7NBgqTI Ghost Train]] by Waterflame is based on, well, a ghost train.
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* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Terror Australis'', adventure "Pride of Yirrimburra". While the investigators are in Yirrimburra, they will hear legends of a ghost train that was lost when it fell into a river. It's said that those about to die will hear its whistle blow. Later in the adventure, if the investigators are walking along the abandoned railroad tracks at night, they will hear the whistle of a locomotive and the tracks will vibrate.
* The Night Train from ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' is used by the feral Nosferatu vampires to travel around at day (through the tracks of the undead-friendly Bayou Vermillion railroad) and find new victims at night.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'''s "Monster Fighter" series included a set called "Ghost Train", a spooky-looking train with glow-in-the-dark elements and a creepy face on the front, driven by a group of troublemaking ghosts.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' had a Friday the 13th event in 2011 featuring a Ghost Train. The player, Music/{{Voltaire}}, and Deady board the train as a quick means of traveling the desert. However they have to fight their way off in order to leave the train, as passengers are not permitted off once boarded.
* The Phantom Express from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a creepy living train who carries a ghost, a skeleton conductor, and two lightning-shooting creatures through a dark forest.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3]]'' there's the "Iron Terror", a monstrous ghost train which serves as the stage for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jon Talbain/Gallon]] in the game. Also this stage can be seen few stages before getting [[BigBad Jedah]], so it's probable the Iron Terror goes to Jedah's headquarters.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Doomtrain in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is a secret [[SummonMagic Guardian Force]] acquired [[GuideDangIt through a sidequest vaguely hinted at by some in-game magazines]]. It appears as a steam train with a ghoulish looking face sticking out of the front, and its summon attack, Runaway Train, has it crash into enemies, inflicting poison damage and StandardStatusEffects.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has a level where [[BareFistedMonk Sabin]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Cyan]] are trapped on a Ghost Train, eventually escaping and fighting the train itself for the BossBattle. This boss is infamous for two reasons: not only does its undead nature mean that [[ReviveKillsZombie revival items kill it instantly]], it's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA possible for Sabin]] to ''suplex'' it.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'' had a Halloween event in 2016 that featured a ghost train full of hostile evil spirits,
* ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse: Terrortown'' has a level taking place on a big carnival train. You play as a ghost who lives in the train's smokestack, and as in the rest of the game, you possess the (frankly, already somewhat creepy-looking) props around the train to scare everyone off.
* The Monster-themed DownloadableContent for ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has you riding around on a skull-shaped locomotive. In fact, the level is even called "Ghost Train!!!".
* Invoked in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', in the level "Ambush Maneuver". Prof. E. Gadd shrinks Luigi down so he can enter a toy train set in one mansion. After activating the train, Luigi gets attacked by a giant Boo. He must fight the boo in the train set, while the train circles around them and CreepyCircusMusic plays. Ironically, though, Luigi actually uses the train to defeat the Boo, by using the big drill on its front to split the Boo into smaller Boos, then flinging them into the train cars, trapping them.
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* Chapter 4 of'' Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is named "The Activity Club and the Ghost Train." It features... members of the activity club [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin going for a ride]] on the eponymous Ghost Train.
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1489 SCP-1489 ("A "Ghost Train")]]. SCP-1489 is a train (1 locomotive and 18 railway cars) that has been herded into traveling along a circular track. It has no physical substance and will pass through any material except old railway components. If not touching such components, it flies through the air in a straight line. The SCP Foundation started stories about "ghost trains" to discourage people from believing witness accounts of SCP-1489's travels.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold and his friend investigate the Legend of Engine 25, about a train piloted by a mad engineer which takes its passengers to the fiery heart of the underworld. It turns out be a DoubleSubversion: There's a real Engine 25, an industrial train which stops at a steel mill, and all the supernatural phenomena Arnold witnesses have perfectly rational explanations, but after Arnold concludes it's an urban myth, [[RealAfterAll the audience is shown the train leaving the steel mill with the ghost of the engineer riding on its front]].
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Although trains are usually seen as fun and lovable machines, they can be used for sinister purposes too. A Ghost Train is a train that has supernatural qualities, and is usually used to carry around ghosts or other monsters, scare people, or for other creepy purposes.
This trope, often seen in folklore, usually takes the form of an old steam train with a dark, twisted appearance. It may be inhabited by a ghostly conductor and passengers, and it may have been either created by the ghosts, or a normal train that they possess for their own ends. Alternatively, the train itself may be fully sentient.
It may often be seen in kid friendly works, especially those with DefangedHorrors, because in a way, it replaces the more conventional fun that trains bring with a more spooky sort of fun.
May be part of a CircusOfFear, or even just associated with CreepyCircusMusic.
Compare GhostShip and SinisterSubway. See also AfterlifeExpress, which is for spirits going to the afterlife instead of staying on Earth, and may be more benevolent than this trope.
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* ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'':
** ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': A reporter invokes the trope by describing a spectral locomotive his grandmother used to tell stories about when he was a boy.
** In ''Film/GhostbustersII'', Ray, Egon and Winston explore the haunted catacombs beneath New York, one of the apparitions being a ghost train. Egon was quick to identify the train as being the old New York Central "City of Albany" that was accidentally derailed in 1920, killing over 100 people.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Folklore]]
* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverpilen Silverpilen]]'' (Swedish for "Silver Arrow") was a train used by the Stockholm Metro from the 1960s to the 1990s. Although it's really just a rare train of unusual design, some people alleged that the train was supernatural; claiming that it picks up passengers at night, who either disappear forever or only return after a long period of time (weeks, months, or even years).
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statesville,_North_Carolina Statesville, North Carolina]] is said to have a ghost train that visits on the anniversary of a horrific 1891 crash in which a train plummeted from a high bridge and about 30 people were killed. Witnesses on the anniversaries of the wreck have heard screeching train wheels, screaming passengers, and the crash itself. Many have also reported seeing a man in a railroad uniform carrying a gold watch who vanished before their eyes. [[http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/27/north.carolina.ghost.train/index.html A spectator watching for it on the anniversary in 2010 was caught on the railroad bridge by a modern train and killed]], raising the eeriness of the site.
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* Creator/CliveCussler's Dirk Pitt novel ''Literature/NightProbe''. While investigating the disappearance of a train, Dirk learns of stories of a "ghost train" that appears on stormy nights and disappears when it reaches a bridge. He later discovers that the story is a hoax, carried out by a train's headlight and a PA system broadcasting train noises being pulled along a cable suspended above the ground.
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* The ''Creator/{{YTV}}'' show ''Seriously Weird'' had the gang encountering a real ghost of a boy who had died in a train accident. The ghost uses his powers to change the diner that they are at, into a real life ghost train (the same one he died in), and sends it headed towards impending doom.
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* The Music/{{Gorillaz}} song ''[[https://youtu.be/1YXbG5UKN_g Ghost Train]]'' only refers to this in his lyrics, but it's about ''something'' that goes after narrator's soul, and how he's prepared to fight against it. Being the "ghost train" part said after every line of the song, probably the narrator refers to the train itself that goes after him.
-->''Here they come to steal my soul
(Ghost train)
Wait it out until I know
(Ghost train)
Trying not to feel like you did
(Ghost train)
Moving up until I go go-o
(Ghost train)''
* Website/YouTube composers Derek and Brandon Fiechter have a song called [[https://youtu.be/ejwF8antyE8 Ghost Train]] as part of their CreepyCircusMusic series. The story in the video's description describes a haunted train that moves on its own.
* The track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6acx7NBgqTI Ghost Train]] by Waterflame is based on, well, a ghost train.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Terror Australis'', adventure "Pride of Yirrimburra". While the investigators are in Yirrimburra, they will hear legends of a ghost train that was lost when it fell into a river. It's said that those about to die will hear its whistle blow. Later in the adventure, if the investigators are walking along the abandoned railroad tracks at night, they will hear the whistle of a locomotive and the tracks will vibrate.
* The Night Train from ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' is used by the feral Nosferatu vampires to travel around at day (through the tracks of the undead-friendly Bayou Vermillion railroad) and find new victims at night.
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* ''Franchise/{{LEGO}}'''s "Monster Fighter" series included a set called "Ghost Train", a spooky-looking train with glow-in-the-dark elements and a creepy face on the front, driven by a group of troublemaking ghosts.
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* ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' had a Friday the 13th event in 2011 featuring a Ghost Train. The player, Music/{{Voltaire}}, and Deady board the train as a quick means of traveling the desert. However they have to fight their way off in order to leave the train, as passengers are not permitted off once boarded.
* The Phantom Express from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a creepy living train who carries a ghost, a skeleton conductor, and two lightning-shooting creatures through a dark forest.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Vampire Savior/Darkstalkers 3]]'' there's the "Iron Terror", a monstrous ghost train which serves as the stage for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Jon Talbain/Gallon]] in the game. Also this stage can be seen few stages before getting [[BigBad Jedah]], so it's probable the Iron Terror goes to Jedah's headquarters.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** Doomtrain in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'' is a secret [[SummonMagic Guardian Force]] acquired [[GuideDangIt through a sidequest vaguely hinted at by some in-game magazines]]. It appears as a steam train with a ghoulish looking face sticking out of the front, and its summon attack, Runaway Train, has it crash into enemies, inflicting poison damage and StandardStatusEffects.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has a level where [[BareFistedMonk Sabin]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Cyan]] are trapped on a Ghost Train, eventually escaping and fighting the train itself for the BossBattle. This boss is infamous for two reasons: not only does its undead nature mean that [[ReviveKillsZombie revival items kill it instantly]], it's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u84cH_bmTA possible for Sabin]] to ''suplex'' it.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius'' had a Halloween event in 2016 that featured a ghost train full of hostile evil spirits,
* ''VideoGame/HauntTheHouse: Terrortown'' has a level taking place on a big carnival train. You play as a ghost who lives in the train's smokestack, and as in the rest of the game, you possess the (frankly, already somewhat creepy-looking) props around the train to scare everyone off.
* The Monster-themed DownloadableContent for ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'' has you riding around on a skull-shaped locomotive. In fact, the level is even called "Ghost Train!!!".
* Invoked in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'', in the level "Ambush Maneuver". Prof. E. Gadd shrinks Luigi down so he can enter a toy train set in one mansion. After activating the train, Luigi gets attacked by a giant Boo. He must fight the boo in the train set, while the train circles around them and CreepyCircusMusic plays. Ironically, though, Luigi actually uses the train to defeat the Boo, by using the big drill on its front to split the Boo into smaller Boos, then flinging them into the train cars, trapping them.
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* Chapter 4 of'' Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'' is named "The Activity Club and the Ghost Train." It features... members of the activity club [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin going for a ride]] on the eponymous Ghost Train.
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* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1489 SCP-1489 ("A "Ghost Train")]]. SCP-1489 is a train (1 locomotive and 18 railway cars) that has been herded into traveling along a circular track. It has no physical substance and will pass through any material except old railway components. If not touching such components, it flies through the air in a straight line. The SCP Foundation started stories about "ghost trains" to discourage people from believing witness accounts of SCP-1489's travels.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Arnold and his friend investigate the Legend of Engine 25, about a train piloted by a mad engineer which takes its passengers to the fiery heart of the underworld. It turns out be a DoubleSubversion: There's a real Engine 25, an industrial train which stops at a steel mill, and all the supernatural phenomena Arnold witnesses have perfectly rational explanations, but after Arnold concludes it's an urban myth, [[RealAfterAll the audience is shown the train leaving the steel mill with the ghost of the engineer riding on its front]].
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