Haunted railroad?

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I have a haunted house and flying saucer scene on my N scale railroad:

You'll find a couple more Halloween-railroad links on my Halloween page:

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

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Google turned up several:

I find that craft stores, toy stores, and dollar stores are a good source for finding items to create inexpensive scenes.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

Hello

Faller and Vollmer have haunted houses. German build>I am looking for ideas for a layout featuring "haunted" themes. Google

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The October 2002 Classic Toy Trains had a small tinplate project pike with Halloween themes - basically a figure 8 with a typical old run-down Victorian haunted house on a hill a one end amid leafless, gnarly old trees, and a farm with a patch full of pumpkins at the other. A better spooky scene than a pumpkin patch would be the old stone church with an interestingly populated grave yard.

Lighting would be important - dim and mostly blue for the overall scene, and yellow lights going on and off randomly to highlight ghosts and ghouls behind various windows, and maybe a red light coming from a open grave. Some animation could be slow opening of the church doors with the sound of an organ playing the Bach D-minor Toccata and Fugue rising and fading again as the doors close, and maybe a casket lid opening to reveal Bela Lugosi... Enough - I'm starting to get cold chills.

Seriously, on a small Lionel display layout I built, turning down the lights, putting a couple skeletons around the layout, and tying a Kleenex around the classic Lionel gateman who pops out of the shack to make him into a temporary ghost was sufficient to get favorable comments from visitors. I had to mist the Kleenex to get it to hold a shape that would pass in and out the doorway. Geezer

The mess on my workbench is getting pretty scary.

Thanks for all of your responses! I look forward to hearing more ideas. I am actually looking for regular items that could be used as if for a Halloween-type setting. The cute ghosts and vampires on orange and white trains are not what interests me. Maybe Gothic-inspired locomotives or cars, Gothic-style houses, etc. This would be something I'd want to work on year-round as a sort of "haunted landscape," not just a house or car or two for October. Thanks again!

Thanks Bill!

Those are really fun and well done scenes. And more ideas for others.

Robert