On Saturday, October 25, volunteers Ron, John, Jackie, Teia, Demitris, Michael, Ben, Dwight, Colin, Bruce, Kendall, Reid, Dannis, Henry, Nick, Polly and Paul all had a frighteningly fun experience hosting our guests who came out to ride the Cemetery Express. Following some early morning work by some volunteers at the Museum shop, we fired up the locomotive and rolled the train over to Union Depot where we found a large group of visitors ready to be scared! The crew stayed very busy during the entire 4 hour event selling tickets, and directing guests to the cabooses, locomotive and the Haunted Railcar, for what many folks were saying was a great time. We even captured a ghoul scaring a couple of our passengers on the locomotive right around sunset!

This Halloween event was our largest event yet this year, with well over 200 riders on our trains. And it was obvious as we never had a slow time during the event, with a constant stream of visitors boarding the train for every round trip. The locomotive cab rides were very well attended and it sure seemed like the cabooses were almost to capacity on each trip! Reports from people who dared walk thru the Haunted Railcar were that it was great, and they were scared nearly to death by the spirit occupying the car!

I have included a few pictures that I was able to capture. If you are not able to see the pictures, click here to go to our Blog Page.

– Paul