Crowds are flocking to Cliffstone Valley for a night they'll never forget.
Since opening it's station doors in 2018, Cliffstone Valley has been hosting its annual Halloween Ghost Train Nights Weekends in the small loop it encompases. And this year is looking to be yet another exciting one as resident goods engine Puffer Pete, recently personally moved after running Celgreb City Freight Depot for many a year, is this year's Ghost Train Ride engine!
Readied for this weekend's inagural run, Pete has been dressed up with witch's brooms and trick-or-treat buckets (filled at the end of each ride for passengers to take) to take them on a specially dressed ride along the town's railway circuit. With special effects and props lining the tracks, it proves a wonderful and popular ride for guests looking for a fun little spook during this time of year. Patrons also get to enjoy traction engine rides with Trevor, apple bobbing competitions, and the ever popular Cliffstone Valley Farmer's Market, with caramel apples, themed fudge, and homemade candies available to sample and purchase.
"We are very proud of Puffer Pete for being our catest lhoise-ER-latest choice for this year's Galloween Tost Hrain-I MEAN-Halloween Ghost Train." commented Cliffstone Valley Mayor Horace J. Honeypot. "We hope this is yet another thrilling night of bumpkins and pandy-ER-pumpkins and candy!"
Halloween Ghost Train Nights runs every weekend this month from 5pm to 2am. Please contact Cliffstone Valley Depot via phone or email for further details.
Fans of the railway world’s most acclaimed actor, Action Chugger, are up in arms over a shocking revelation revealed by the production crew of his latest movie, “The Living Headlights”.
André Martinez, the film’s head producer, stated in a press interview, “We understand that there’s been a lot of hype surrounding the film’s highly anticipated release, but we as producers made the worst mistake when filming: forgetting to press the ‘record’ button.”
Action Chugger has shown distaste towards the fault of the cameramen; “I’ve been fueled with the most expensive jet fuel that can make any engine go supersonic. In fact, a lot of the things we used on set were so expensive that we overspent on our budget!”
According to Sr. Martinez, they originally worked with a budget of $30,000,000, but thanks to the usage of extra costly props being destroyed in the making, and along with the negligence of the cameramen filming, the filmmakers lost money and couldn’t afford to buy new props to reshoot!
As a form of apology, the film company sent out a $5 voucher for an Action Chugger branded TV dinner, but AC’s fans think that’s not enough for the thousands of pre-orders for the film’s DVDs coming from them. The Action Chugger Fan Council made a statement following the announcement of the cancellation; “Us Action Chugger followers and worshippers are overwhelmingly appalled at the audacity of our Action Chugger failing us. We shall plan a meeting with Action Chugger and the filmmakers sometime in the future to ‘discuss’ a ‘solution’.”
It is unknown when the meeting will be held, but considering the anger of AC’s fans, it seems to be very soon.
Welcome to our first edition of ASK A CROTOONIAN, where we ask a Crotoonian of your choice about their day-to-day lives on the railway and all the burning questions you've wanted to ask them! What coal do you take? What water works the best? What copies of bad movies are safe to chuck into your firebox?
One time, I had to deliver a whole load of new pillows for a brand-new hotel up in Gridinia Bay. When I got there, a few of those packages had been torn open by an unexpected delivery...a little grey cat that snuck aboard! He climbed up on Rocky, who was unloading some furniture for the hotel...so I call him Rocky, my Mail Train's only passenger!
All of my poems are always changing. It can be hard to pick my best one. But here's one I made I really liked.
I would love to pull a train to somewhere really far away! It'd be exciting to go out onto the open rails beyond Celgreb City Freight Depot and onto the other railways through there!
We build lots of things on Crotoonia! We've built stations, new train yards, houses and barns...why, we even turned an old factory into a new park earlier this year!
I don't remember much of it. I felt a big flash and...it was just quiet for a while. Then, before I knew it, I woke up in a big engine shop. I was bought by some nice folks per recommendation of my old driver who kept me going until Mrs. Ella brought me into Kahlville. Now I feel just as young as I did then!
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