Ghost Train

The story: Engine 29 was a 4-4-0 American Type built in 1895 that served on the K & W Railroad in the United States. The K & W wasn't a very big line, but it was well loved by the communities it served. One day in late November 1938 Engine 29 was assigned to take a mail train to a junction with the Transcontinental Line where the mail would be transferred to the Pacific Flyer, The Transcontinental's premier express train that ran between New York City and San Francisco. The snow had come early that year and was quite Heavy. The engineer hoped to not keep the Pacific Flyer delayed and was keen to keep to the schedule. All went smoothly till 29 reached an old wooden trestle that spanned a frozen river. As 29 chuffed across the trestle the bridge began to groan, sway and splinter. The engineer tried to speed across to safety, but to no avail. The old trestle collapsed taking engine 29, all 5 mail cars and the caboose with it. The next day, the snow had stopped, and work crews went out to clear the wreckage. They recovered the caboose and the mail cars, but they never found old 29 and its crew but they did find the whistle. A new steel bridge was soon built, and business resumed. However, shortly after the bridge was opened, engineers, railroad workers and farmers in the area reported seeing a ghost engine thundering down the tracks and vanishing at the spot where the wreck occurred. Today the K & W still operates as a freight only line, but some will tell you that in late November old 29 comes back to haunt the line, forever looking for its whistle