Halloween is less than two weeks away and so if anyone has any train pics to go along with this spooky occasion, let's post them here.

This is a few shots that I took of my abandoned and supposedly haunted house a few years ago. This always seems to happen this time of the year:

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Oh, the house is N scale, but I'm not too sure about those creepy things....

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WOW RB! That last picture was truly frightening.

Lynn

You ought to see me with my mask on!

Running Bear Wrote:You ought to see me with my mask on!

Uh, could you please put one on, this is truly frightening enough.

Thank you, Don. I couldn't have said it better

Of course, this explains why I never post my face anywhere. I like this forum far too much to see it explode.

Lynn

Covered up for your protection! Now hand over da trains!

Some Old Heads who have worked the line around Kings Port like to tell the new guys about a ghost steam train that appears late at night around Halloween. Back in the '30s there was a terrible wreck just East of town one Autumn night when a passenger train derailed and tumbled down the bank into the Hudson with no survivors. The young hostler in that GP40 is pretty shaken but will never admit what he saw!

Would you?

Was out at ore Hill taking some pictures of some Southwick and Winsted action. Didn't see it till I downloaded this picture.

That's when the engineer has one of those 'Holy S**t!' moments. As well as some new gray hairs.

How did you do that double exposure trick Ed? I thought something like that would be cool for my pic but didn't know how to do it with a digital camera.

It was a lot of work Ralph. You also need a Photoshop program. I use MS Picture it v.10.

First. I took a picture of the GP-38 on my layout. Moved that out of shot. Leaving the camera in the same spot, I set up the Consoldation going the opposite way and took a picture. After downloading to my computer, using MS Picture It, I chopped out the unwanted areas(spaces in handrails, grabs) on the GP-38. When finished I placed it into one of my backdrop pictures. Moving to the picture of the Consolidation, I traced around just the loco, tender and the passenger car, then copied and pasted to the first picture. I then chopped out the unwanted areas so there weren't any blank(raw) areas on the Consolodation. Using Picture Its "transparency" function, I kept going til I got the Consoldation to the right "ghostly" transparency.