Fitch Bits: The Ghost Train of Pittsfield, Massachusetts
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DID YOU KNOW
that Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has a ghost train?
Back in 1958, a guy by the name of John Quirk was in the Bridge Diner, which sat right next to the train tracks. He was just minding his own business when a phantom train drove right by the place. He got a good look at it and told people it had five or six coaches, a baggage car, and a tender with coal in it.
The same thing happened one month later at 6:30am and he contacted railway officials about it. They looked into what happened, since they had no idea why a steam engine was using their tracks, and confirmed that a train running on coal hadn’t operated on them for many years.
The whole thing played out again a few months later, and the officials were able to verify that no train was on that track at that time.
So, what was it? Well, locals like to believe it was an express train from Chicago to Boston that crashed way back in 1893. It was carrying lots of passengers when a bridge thirty miles outside of Pittsfield collapsed, causing a railroad disaster. Fifteen people were killed, and they might still be on their way to the end of the line!
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Ed Sweeney documents folklore, odd history, hauntings, and cryptid cases at SlightlyOddAmerica.com. He wrote Slightly Odd Fitchburg: The Odd and Haunted History of Central Massachusetts, is a content creator, and founder of the Slightly Odd Society
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