Train of No Return: An episode from Ghost Train (An old security guard falls asleep on the antique train he is guarding. When he awakes, the train is moving. Short Story)

Haunted Ride

An old security officer find himself trapped on the very train he is guarding. As the antique conveyance, which with no engine, couldn’t possibly run of its own power, speeds through the night, he discovers he is not the only passenger aboard. However, he is the only one with a heartbeat. A nurse, encountering what she assumes to be a broken down train, stops to help. Thinking two crew member have gone in search of a phone, she follows them to and old abandoned infirmary. She intends to offer them the use of her own cell phone. She soon learns their train isn’t broken and they aren’t there to use a phone. A young woman, living in the shantytowns of New Orleans had been given an ornament as a child. Now grown, with help from the ornament, which happens to be an amulet as well as a talisman, she finds amongst all her other powers she has the ability to raise the dead. Leaving his job on the spur of the moment after witnessing the opening of a mausoleum in the dead of night and the corpse brought back to life, a not too bright caretaker is stranded on the highway. Leaving his car to walk, he encounters an animal that can be none other than a ghost dog. He will regret leaving the safety of his vehicle. Excerpt from book: There was a minute change in the hum of wheels as the train crossed the bridge spanning the river. The silver ripples of moon-glow on the water appeared as if a giant had spilt a mélange of shiny coins, and they were still warbling over the surface. Other than the ethereal reflection, it was dark again. Doc dared glance over his shoulder. The outline of the wraith could once again be seen. Doc moved to the seat next to the window and huddled in the corner, wondering where this would all end. At the rate this thing was moving, they would soon be in Beaumont. Could that be their destination? He certainly hoped so. The next time light from an outside source flooded the interior, Doc thought he felt something brush his left arm. As the light disappeared to the rear and the coach was in all but darkness again, he realized the apparition had move to the front of the coach and was now sitting alongside him!