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The Guardians of the SGR: Why Ghost Train Legends Still Haunt the Madaraka Express in 2026
This is more than another one of those ghost train legends. The ones you hear every night over and over as you await the last train out. This is about the spirit of the SRG rails, and you must read… Continue reading
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How to Pack for a Family Trip Without Losing Your Mind
Packing for yourself is one thing. Packing for a family trip – for yourself, a toddler, a first-grader, and maybe a baby? That’s an entirely different job. Every parent has been there. You’re three days out from a trip, staring… Continue reading
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How to Keep a Large Cast of Characters Straight While You Write
Twenty chapters in, you’ve introduced fourteen named characters, and you can’t remember if Marcus has blue eyes or brown ones. You wrote it down somewhere. Probably. How do you keep a large cast of characters straight while you write? This… Continue reading
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Madaraka Express: The Steel Ribbon of the Kenyan Wilderness
Do you know the Madaraka Express story? Every afternoon at the Nairobi Terminus in Syokimau, a quiet transformation unfolds. The ambient hum of heavy engines vibrates through the polished concourse while hundreds of travelers are balancing woven baskets, wildlife photographers… Continue reading
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The Ciurea Train Disaster of 1917: A Wartime Rescue Train
One freezing winter night during World War I, an overcrowded train nicknamed “The Ciurea Train” consisting of 26 cars, left Galați for Iași on Friday, 11 January 1917. It headed for a descent toward Ciurea and was reaching its final… Continue reading
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Read the Short Ghost Story: The Soul Trader
Old wives’ tales said that the Soul Trader walked the rails late at night, offering wealth and fame to greedy and unfaithful men. Many who became rich soon vanished into thin air, never to be seen again. How truthful these… Continue reading
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100 Years of the World’s Most Famous Locomotive
Few locomotives have seen such a long and eventful life, carrying the weight of legend in railway history quite like the Flying Scotsman. This LNER Class A1 (and later A3) Pacific was built in Doncaster in February 1923 and officially… Continue reading
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The Glacier Express: A Railway Journey Through the Swiss Alps
Railways travel is more than a way to move from one place to another. It can be a window into another country’s landscape, history, engineering and culture. Few train journeys demonstrate this better than the Glacier Express, a Celebrated mountain… Continue reading
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Train Spirits Opens First Writing Contest: Ghost and Railways
Popular short story platform, Train Spirits, has launched its first-ever writing contest, and it’s all about rails. The contest, dubbed Ghost and Railways, will investigate some of the most famous ruins to be found across the world. Readers can delve… Continue reading
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Mount Lowe Railway: Where Did the “Railway to the Clouds” Go?
The Mount Lowe Railway plays a major role in Southern California’s remarkable mountain tourism. What really happened to the “Railway to the Clouds”? This article delves into its ruins today, the stories that linger around it, and what visitors can… Continue reading
