RIde to Hell, The

DESCRIPTION: "VInce was a railroad engineer, His train a daily freight That roared through hills... Insanely testing fate." Vince the engineer is well known along his route. One day in 1923, running late, he hits a bad switch and dies. Now his ghost runs the route
AUTHOR: Denver Stull
EARLIEST DATE: 1982 (West Virginia Hillbilly, according to Lyle)
KEYWORDS: train death ghost
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lyle-ScaldedToDeathByTheSteam, p. 203, "The Ride to Hell" (1 text)
NOTES [20 words]: Clearly not traditional, and only marginally historic -- even the author wasn't sure he recalled the date of the wreck. - RBW
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File: LySc203

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