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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|Digimon]]'' example: In ''[[Digimon Frontier (Anime)|Frontier]]'' (Season 4), Takuya found himself confronted by Dark Trailmon, a train Digimon, after getting annihilated in a battle. Dark Trailmon offers him a chance to avoid going to the Digital World, and takes him back in time to when his journey started. But the catch? He's running around the human world as Flamemon. (His wearing a [[Sleep Mode Size|"rookie level"]] version of his Digimon form is a way around the problem of [[Never the Selves Shall Meet|two Takuyas existing at once.) He eventually decides to allow his journey to take place]], and [[He's Back|returns to the Digital World]]. (And the bad guy they were fighting has ''long walked away'' to sort out his lost memories by the time he got back. Oh, well. Next time.)

* ''[[Spirited Away]]'': The train Chihiro rides to get to Zeniba's home is intended for use by the dead moving on to the next life, driven by a [[The Faceless|faceless]] conductor and holding silent soul passengers (who are [[Uncanny Valley|creepily]] represented as semi-featureless shadows). Kamaji comments that it "used to run both ways, but these days it's a one-way ride".

* Sister Rosette Christopher in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' finds herself riding on one of these after she dies. Thanks to some words of encouragement from another passenger, she leaps off the moving train before it reaches its destination, causing her to revive in the real world.

''Your face will leave your rotting head, in the early morning''<br />

''Your guts will leave your corpse, your spine will break and crack in two'' }}

* "Penn Station" by The Felice Brothers has a newly dead protagonist waiting to see which of two rival Soul Trains, from [[Heaven]] and... [[Hell|the... other place]] will get to him first.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE City of New Orleans]" puts a spin on this. In this song, it's the trains themselves that are headed to the proverbial afterlife, not their passengers. Steve Goodman wrote the nostalgic song about air travel [[Truth in Television|driving passenger rail service out of business:]]

* ''Zelda''

** A ghost ship in ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass]]''. Overlaps with [[Flying Dutchman]].

** ''[[The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks]]'': A very weird exception appears: We get the [[Cool Train]] and a [[Our Ghosts Are Different|Ghost]] rides it (along with a living passager), but the ghost in question gleefully giggles, smiles and plays around on the train while it drives around, removing all the creepy from the situation and moving it into [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] terretory instead. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN8Ls77-NNY The commercial] plays it a bit more straight.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'': After wandering onboard such a train, you have to fight it ([[Everything Trying to Kill You|of course]]) to get off. Since it's undead, a very common [[Revive Kills Zombie|item]] will easily destroy [[Anticlimax Boss|the boss]] for you.

* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters (Animation)|The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Knock Knock", the Ghostbusters board a train in New York, only to realise that it has been taken over by demonic forces, it's passengers killed and turned into skeletons. Their solution? blast them all!

* ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'' has both Percy and Peter Sam tell stories about ghost trains. Percy's story (and the accompanying cinematic sequence) is pure horror.

* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', Bender ends up on a roller coaster to Hell... Robot Hell... Complete with Singing Robot Satan...

 

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