Ghost trains, horror on the tracks, unsolved ghostly inhabits of train tracks, and hobo culture: Today is all about the scary side of trains - Railroads built the United States. When travelers had to get from here to there and goods long distances, the train was the answer for a country that did not have highways. The hub of any city was its train depot and the tracks of iron laid out across the nation, many of them abandoned these days, left us with some chilling ghosts from the past. Are train tracks more haunted? I checked that out when I was working on the haunted formula, comparing commonalities in most haunted locations. Train tracks showed up in the vicinity of a vast majority of haunted locations (32 of 50). The one thing I could not answer, however, was whether or not that was an incidental finding, i.e. train tracks tended to be going through older parts of town where buildings had more generations living in them of first settlers to the area. Townspeople often rep...