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A recurring element in Oral Tradition and fiction. A sinister (or at least mysterious) phantom train beholden to no earthly schedule, often times in charge of transporting souls to the afterlife. A vehicular version of The Grim Reaper, then, minus the reaping (though that's not to say that the train that runs over people wouldn't be hilarious). Its conductor—if not the train itself—might play chess, too. The choice of a train is interesting in that trains are a relatively young technology, as mythologies go, but they've fit into this role extremely well. Doubtless the spooky train whistle helps. The mode of conveyance need not be an actual train — in fact, before the invention of trains, it was usually a ship (and before that, smaller boats) — but it surprisingly often is. Perhaps it's that most people get on trains as passengers, with no control, and that, even for those running the train, travel is restricted to a fixed route, both of which reflect a lack of control for the soul. This trope has antecedents in both Classical and Celtic Mythology. The Greek pantheon had the god Charon, whose job it was to ferry souls to the underworld in a boat across the River Styx. Ireland, meanwhile, had the cóiste-bodhar, the black coach that came for the souls of the dead. A sub-trope of The Journey Through Death. See also Ghost Train, a more spooky, often malicious train that stays on Earth to terrorize the living. Compare with Cool Train, Hellevator, and Stairway to Heaven. Contrast Flying Dutchman (another spooky means of transportation, but forbidden to go to the afterlife) and Ghost Ship (for normal derelict vessels). Not related to the TV show Soul Train (though both do involve both gettin' on up and gettin' down). As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Outward Bound has a small group of people coming aboard a passenger liner, without any clear idea of why they're on the boat or where they're going. Turns out they're all dead and the liner is a vessel taking them to the afterlife. | |
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One season of Gregory Horror Show had a bit of this. One passenger Gregory encountered was the ghost of a man continually re-living his daily commute to work. The kicker? Said man is the first protagonist. And while he wasn't dead yet, a giant chicken was unknowingly traveling to a slaughterhouse for his new "job." |
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Preacher (2016) has a school bus to Hell. | |
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This trope is discussed in From Hell. Sergeant Godley is curious about the custom of placing coins on a dead person's eyes. Inspector Abberline explains that the coins are to pay the ferryman who takes people across a river to the land of the dead. | |
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the song "Old Black Train" from Over the Garden Wall is clearly about the titular train as a metaphor for death (which is made even more clear by the verses not included in the actual episode). The scene in which it's heard plays on the Afterlife Express trope in a more loose sense. Wirt and Greg are transported into the Unknown (which may or may not be the Afterlife) via a train. In the sense that they barely avoided being hit by an uncoming train, but as a result fell into a river, lost consciousness and ended up in the Unknown. The sound of the train can be faintly heard over the title card of every episode. "Old Black Train", the sound of the train in the title card, and other elements such as the Beast's Lantern looking like an old train conductor's lantern are likely remnants of an earlier version of the story that involved this trope much more heavily. With Wirt and Greg ending up in the Unknown after jumping off a train that Wirt believed was taking them to Death, only to eventually discover it was leading them back into the land of the living. |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The place that Harry visits in his Near-Death Experience turns out to be King's Cross Station, where he first went Down the Rabbit Hole. It is implied this is just what Harry sees, and that it takes a different form for different people. Dumbledore points out the significance of his imagining a train station, and that he has a choice to make between going back, or boarding a train and going "on". The film versions of Deathly Hallows also foreshadow this trope by playing Nick Cave's "O Children" (see below under Music) during a key scene in Part 1. |
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Digimon example: In 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 "rookie level" version of his Digimon form is a way around the problem of two Takuyas existing at once.) He eventually decides to allow his journey to take place, and returns to the Digital World. (And the bad guy they were fighting has long since walked away to sort out his lost memories by the time he got back. Oh, well. Next time.) | |
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In the B.P.R.D. story "Night Train", there's a spectral train full of ghost soldiers. Back in WWII, the train had transported soldiers, until a Nazi saboteur destroyed a bridge, wrecking the train and killing everyone on board. In the modern day, the train and its soldiers hunt that Nazi to drag him off to the afterlife for judgement. | |
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Darkstalkers 3 had a stage called Iron Horse, Iron Terror set on an apparently sentient train engine complete with an eyeball headlight and several twitching mouths, driven by a skeletal conductor. For a series based upon horror tropes and everything related to the lore surrounding it, it's rather unsurprising that a Soul Train would be in it. | |
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The Tom and Jerry short "Heavenly Puss" features one. Tom has to go back to Earth and make peace with Jerry before they'll let him aboard the Heavenly Express. He doesn't make the train in time and ends up literally being dropped into Fire and Brimstone Hell, but luckily for Tom it was All Just a Dream. | |
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Kingdom Hearts II: One of The Seven Mysteries of Twilight Town. It turns out to be a magic train that carries people to the Mysterious Tower, home of Yen Sid. | |
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A Post-Crisis arc has The Spectre dealing with a demon-ghost who snakes tentacles into a subway car that drink the blood of all they find. | |
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Giovanni's Island: When Kanta is dying, Junpei imagines him boarding the Galactic Express which takes his little brother up to heaven. | |
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One of the Choose Your Own Adventure books centered around this. | |
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Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa, which has been adapted into anime twice and some stage plays and musicals. The protagonist dreams of a spectral train in space, carrying him and a friend, through some adventures, before he awakes to find the friend is believed to have died in the night, trying to be a hero. | |
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Thomas & Friends has both Percy and Peter Sam tell stories about ghost trains. Percy's story (and the accompanying cinematic sequence) is pure horror. | |
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The Mummy (1999) has a phantom chariot that comes for Imhotep's soul. | |
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The train station announcer in Wreck-It Ralph mentions a Soul Train departing from one of the outlets, but it's not clear whether this actually has anything to do with death or the afterlife. | |
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The Phantom Express, one of the bosses in Cuphead, is a haunted train where Cuphead and Mugman are attacked by a ghost, a giant conducting skeleton, two living pistons, and finally the sentient engine pulling the train. | |
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Played with in Alice: Madness Returns where The Infernal Train that has replaced the old Looking Glass-line, and is polluting and destroying Wonderland as it goes, doesn't represent a physical death, but rather a mental one. | |
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The first episode of Spielberg's Amazing Stories TV series featured an old man racked by guilt over killing everyone on a train in his youth. At the end of the episode, the train he'd derailed — full of the ghosts of the people who had died — pulls into the station, and the ghostly conductor leads the old man on board. | |
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The Dresden Files: In the conclusion of Changes, Harry Dresden, fatally injured and sinking into a lake, hears the sound of an oncoming train. In the very beginning of the next book Ghost Story, you learn that there IS a train coming for him, and he has to be dragged out of the way to stop it from hitting him. This is described as a "southbound train", one that presumably leads to Hell. The Big Bad of "Ghost Story" is finally brought down by a rush of spirits so direct and forceful that it is itself described as an oncoming train, and when said Big Bad screams in terror, Dresden says that her scream was drowned out by the "sound of a southbound train". | |
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Lemont Brown of Candorville sometimes dreams that he boards a train from Earth to outer space, where he converses with recently deceased celebrities. For instance, he spoke with Steve Jobs in 2011 and shooting victim Trayvon Martin in April of 2012. | |
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The sequel, Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser, has the Underworld Train as the epilogue to World 5. Ronan makes a reference to this during the first part, where he "couldn't stop thinking of past memories". | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: When he's absorbed into the Dirac Sea, Shinji's mind (we think) conjurs up a phantasmal train that is already in motion when he appears on it, and never, in turn, arrives at a destination. While aboard, he speaks to a second, unseen presence who claims to be himself. Whether this other him is in fact the God-Emperor of Mankind remains a subject of debate. Rei and Asuka both end up in the Hell Train. The real mindscrew is when, later, Touji visits the Hell Train...and sees Shinji and Rei in an adjacent car of the same train (but the train is a type that doesn't allow passengers to move from car to car). His only comment is wondering what they are talking about. |
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Metalocalypse band Dethklok made a "blues" song titled "Murdertrain a Comin'" (Why is this song the Blues? Because it's about a train, of course!). A sample of the lyrics: | |
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The historical London Necropolis Railway plays this role in "Third-Class Coffin", by The Men That Will Not Be Blamed for Nothing. The deceased singer is insulted to realise that each of the upper-class dead gets an entire train carriage for their mourners to accompany them, while the poor are stacked like freight. | |
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In Dreamscape, the fight with the villain takes place in the President's nightmare on a train filled with dead-looking mutants traveling across a United States after a nuclear war. | |
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In the final episode of The Midnight Gospel, Yancy climbs into his multiverse simulator before the police blow it up. Inside he gets on a bus of seemingly infinite length, filled with characters who died in the series. | |
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Point Horror Unleashed title Fright Train is this. The train carriage the protagonists are becomes involved in a horrific rail accident (although none of the characters realise this until the very end), with the rest of their journey taking them to the bowels of Hell. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "A Stop at Willoughby", a man is riding a commuter train home from work. It has an announced stop at Willoughby, and it looks like such a nice, quiet place like an 1800s public square with a gazebo, band concerts, picnics etc., but then finds there is no such stop on the railroad. He realizes that it's actually a portal to the afterlife, and decides to get off, discovering it's just as nice as he thought it would be. On the train, horrified passengers saw him get up, screaming "Willoughby!", then run and jump off the train. His body is shown being carried away in a hearse, and the rear door slams, noting the name of the undertaker: Willoughby and Sons. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Dead Run", truckers such as Johnny Davis and Pete drive the condemned to Hell in semi-trailer trucks, though seemingly only condemned Americans. According to Pete, trains are used in India and China, tramlines in Russia and old buses in Mexico. | |
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The Twilight Zone (2002): "Night Route" had a woman being stalked by a creepy-looking bus driver and his bus full of souls after she narrowly avoid being hit by a car. The Karmic Twist Ending here is that not only did the car actually hit her, but the bus driver isn't Death. He's Life, and he goes to people on the brink of death when it isn't their time yet and shuttles them off to the world of the living again. Sadly, she doesn't realize this until it is too late and vanishes in a wisp of smoke. | |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, there are a few soul trains in the Pumpkin Hill level that keep circling through walls, though they don't really serve any purpose. Except running Knuckles over whenever the player isn't paying attention. | |
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At the beginning of Grave of the Fireflies Seita dies in a train station. When the tin containing his sister Setsuko's remains is thrown away, her spirit is released and the spirits of Seita and Setsuko reunite. They then board a lonely train, and watch falling bombs, which segues into the story of how they died with the bombings of Kobe. | |
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Played with in Neverwhere. An Underground train of this sort appears to Richard during the ordeal of the Black Friars; however, the catch is that getting on the train, rather than committing suicide on the tracks, is what allows him to LIVE. | |
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Exalted: The Midnight Express also shows as a mysterious soulsteel and moonsilver train that travels through the Labyrinth, conveying passengers to and from the Mouth of the Void. The Deathlords are interested in taking control of it; to date, they haven't succeeded. | |
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Galaxy Express 999 has an encounter with a train full of ghosts in the vicinity of Filament, a planet that had been suddenly destroyed some time ago leaving the souls of its inhabitants to live on in that area. | |
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Played with in InCryptid. In One Hell of a Ride, Jonathan and Fran's train slips into a hell dimension (which somehow still has train tracks), and have to defend themselves and the passengers from murderous imps. | |
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Jojos Bizarre Adventure Fanon likes to depict fallen heroes as taking a train to heaven. The inspiration for this was the use of "Last Train Home" by the Pat Methany Group as the ending theme in the 2015 anime adaptation of its third part. | |
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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, it's a ship, not a train, but Death and Life-in-Death play dice for the crew's souls. | |
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In Devilman, a train enters a tunnel that is actually a demon, with the conductor corrupted and taunting. Among the devoured casualties is a little girl who was once the only friend Akira Fudo ever had. A Fate Worse Than Death awaits the fallen. | |
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Ghost Sweeper Mikami has a ghost train chapter/episode. | |
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Call of Cthulhu supplement Fearful Passages, adventure "Iron Ghost". "The Train That Ever Was" carries its victims to a terrible fate: to be devoured by Azathoth. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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In Grim Fandango, the Number Nine express train carries only the most saintly of souls to the Ninth Underworld in four minutes instead of four years like the others who have to travel by different means. Illegally obtaining your ticket, however, has dire consequences, as the entire train quite literally goes to Hell as a result. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A ghost ship in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Overlaps with Flying Dutchman. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Shadow Temple features, in between its last two basements, an eerie ship that floats on shadowy mist and is described as the "ferry to the other world". The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: A very weird exception. There's the Spirit Train and a ghost who rides it (along with a living passenger), but the ghost in question gleefully giggles, smiles and plays around on the train while it drives around, removing all the creepiness from the situation and moving it into heartwarming territory instead. The game's commercial plays it straight. |
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Afterlife Express | |
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One of the sets in the LEGO Monster Fighters series is a flying ghost train driven by a trio of ghosts. | |
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Metro 2033 has one in the level "Ghosts". The headlights are visible as it heads down the rails, but the train itself (and if you look in the windows, the passengers) can only be seen as a shadow via your flashlight. | |
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?: The Tale of Station 109.1 revolves around an off-the-dial radio station that calls lost souls to the other side. The protagonist, who discovers the station on a hearse's radio, ends up being mistaken for a dead person and accidentally gets sent through the gate. A literal example is featured in The Tale of Train Magic, in which the ghost of a railroad conductor who died in a train wreck returns to look for a new conductor to take his place on said train. |
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Shaman King has Matamune, the split-tailed cat spirit, appearing in the afterlife and boarding a train. The image is an homage to Kenji Miyazawa's Night on the Galactic Railroad. At the conclusion of the series, all of Yoh's friends and family arrive on a train connected by their souls to save him and the other four Elemental Warriors from being overpowered by Hao. |
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In The Heavenly Kid, Bobby dies and is immediately transported to a mysterious subway train taking him to the afterlife. | |
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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. | |
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The penultimate episode of This Is Us has an entirely benevolent variation. Rebecca Pearson is comatose and slowly dying, with her mind having been ravaged by Alzheimer's. As her family gathers to say goodbye to her, she experiences a luxury train ride in her mind. Unusually for this trope, while the train is moving forward, she traverses in in reverse, starting with the first passenger car and moving to the caboose. As she goes through each car, she encounters her loved ones, some living and some dead, who help her accept her death, while William acts as her guide. As her loved ones say their goodbyes in the living world, Rebecca hears them through the train's speakers. When she reaches the caboose, she finds it setup like her bedroom, and climbs into bed. There she finds Jack, her first husband, who died decades previously, who welcomes her to the next stage of the afterlife. | |
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In the Star Trek novel I, Q, Q, Picard and Data ride a miles-long train of livestock cars filled with listless people. In this surreal story, what is actually going on is slightly unclear, but they know it will carry them to their doom. | |
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Grand Chase has Monster Train 301, a Event Dungeon revolving around a sideplot where a companion of Ronan, Harpe dies to Ashtaroth. In an attempt to save Harpe's soul, they board the ghost train consisting of undead, only to fight their way to the engine room. Casey Bones, the conductor says that a soul cannot return after they die, meaning that all this was unsuccessful. The train explodes after the furnace goes berserk. The sequel, Grand Chase Dimensional Chaser, has the Underworld Train as the epilogue to World 5. Ronan makes a reference to this during the first part, where he "couldn't stop thinking of past memories". |
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Final Fantasy VI: After wandering onboard such a train, you have to fight it (of course) to get off. Since it's undead, a very common item will easily destroy the boss for you (or you can have Sabin suplex the train). One creepy detail about the train is that you can look at the schedule book, only to find that it's blank. It happens that the war going on is causing so many deaths that the train is pretty much running nonstop, and has been for some time. | |
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Gloria, the train in The Charnel House Trilogy, is one of these. It's made obvious to the player at the end of the first episode, but the characters who board take a bit longer to catch on. The fact that the train seems like an apparently normal, if antique, train for the longest time only makes it more unnerving. | |
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The In the Heights movie has Paciencia y Fe as Abuela Claudia's Death Song. Here it's a Dying Dream set entirely on subway trains and stations. At the end, Claudia ascends the stairs leading out of the subway intro a white light. | |
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Casper: A Spirited Beginning has the titular character find himself on one at the beginning. (He also doesn't realize he's dead at this point.) | |
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The penultimate scene of Ezel shows Ezel and the mortally-wounded Eyşan seated on a train. After Eyşan dies and Ezel appears to take his own life, the camera pans to reveal the other passengers, beloved friends and family who had passed before them: Kamil, Mert, Tevfik, Ramiz, and finally, a smiling Bahar. | |
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In 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, its passengers killed and turned into skeletons. Their solution? Bust them all! | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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The film Heart and Souls features a variant involving a bus that comes (way behind schedule apparently) to collect the ghosts now that they've had time to finish their Unfinished Business. In fact, it is the same bus (and driver) from when the four of them were killed. After they explain that nobody ever told them why they were still around as ghosts, the driver agrees to give them some time to finish their affairs now that they know HOW to, but the bus returns periodically to pick them up one by one with no more negotiation or leeway. | |
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There is a modified example in The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis. There is a flying bus that travels between Heaven and Hell, and it's used only by those who are already in the afterlife. The inhabitants of Hell can board it and visit Heaven, and they can stay there if they choose to, although most don't. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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One chapter in Princess Resurrection had Hime and the gang having to board one of these while fighting one of her siblings. | |
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The protagonist of Pinstripe starts on a train. It's later revealed that he's Dead All Along and in some kind of Limbo. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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The Final Fantasy Phantom Train is used as a base for the Doom Train level in Super Mario Fusion Revival. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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Trese: Ibu, the goddess of the underworld, has her emissary use the MRT and LRT lines in Manila as transportation for souls to her realm. | |
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The Good Place introduces one when Eleanor is (temporarily) being whisked off to Hell at the end of the first season. From then on the neighbourhood station is the way for all the characters to traverse the various different afterlifes and architect habitats. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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In the original comic of The Crow, Eric Draven is travelling to the afterlife in a train carriage before he remembers his murdered girlfriend, as he still has Unfinished Business in the world of the living. When Death asks him for his ticket, he turns back. | |
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The original novel has several references to Night on the Galactic Railroad with regard to Nageki. It's his favorite story, and Anghel's fantasy-counterpart-nickname for him is "Estelle Campanella" (Campanella of the Stars). | |
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In Darby O'Gill and the Little People, the Cóiste-bodhar (death coach) and its headless driver, a Gan Ceann, make an appearance. | |
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Lobotomy Corporation has the Express Train to Hell. The main body is the ticket station, which flashes a number of lights overhead. Sending an employee to the station has them collect a ticket, which heals a certain percentage of the employees depending on how many lights are lit (at four lights, the maximum, all of your employees are healed). But if the station has four lights lit for too long, the train itself plows through your department, dealing massive damage to anyone in its path. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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In Futurama, Bender ends up on a roller coaster to Hell... Robot Hell... Complete with Singing Robot Satan... | |
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Aunt Pol from Peaky Blinders mentions that her daughter Anna was once caught trying to board a train to Birmingham. Pol invokes this trope by saying that death was the one train they couldn't get her off. | |
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A ghost ship in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. Overlaps with Flying Dutchman. | |
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After Leone Abbachio dies in Golden Wind, there is a scene of him meeting his dead partner and boarding a bus. | |
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Afterlife Express | |
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This is the central conceit of Hadestown, which reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice on a Depression-era train line. Hades' train takes living souls down to Hadestown, where they work forever in exchange for security. | |
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There's one in Skies of Arcadia too. Travels at high altitudes between Nasr, the Lands of Ice, and Mid-Ocean in a triangular route. | |
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Angus Og: At one point Angus, Tonald, and Mairileen hitch a ride on what appears to be a Clyde Puffer called The Flying Teuchter which turns out to be crewed by demons from Hell, and owned by Old Nick himself. | |
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ARIA has the appearance of a ghostly train that appears to transport cats to some sort of afterlife. This is a Shout-Out to Night on the Galactic Railroad. | |
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Hatoful Boyfriend: The original novel has several references to Night on the Galactic Railroad with regard to Nageki. It's his favorite story, and Anghel's fantasy-counterpart-nickname for him is "Estelle Campanella" (Campanella of the Stars). In the sequel Holiday Star, the bird afterlife actually is traveling the universe on the Galactic Railroad until you forget your past life and are reincarnated. Judging by the human girl's familiarity with the Conductor, this is also her fate after all those bad ends. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The Shadow Temple features, in between its last two basements, an eerie ship that floats on shadowy mist and is described as the "ferry to the other world". | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: A less obvious example in the second outro for Stardust Crusaders: there's a shot of the main cast sitting together in a train compartment, and Joseph is holding three tickets. After Leone Abbachio dies in Golden Wind, there is a scene of him meeting his dead partner and boarding a bus. |
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Shimeji Simulation: The train that Shijima enters at the end of Chapter 47 is extremely mysterious in nature and it brings passengers to some unknown destination. As an added bonus, it also floats in emptiness. It becomes the principal focus of Chapter 48 when Shijima travels across many worlds through it. And ironically enough, both Chito and Yuuri, the characters of Girls' Last Tour, are in the train, who were presumably dead after reaching the highest layer of the megacity whose consciousness had been uploaded into the simulation. | |
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Wraith: The Oblivion features the Midnight Express, a train traveling through the Shadowlands that serves as neutral ground for all the rival factions of the afterlife — including those serving Oblivion. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean's iteration of the Flying Dutchman is the nautical equivalent. | |
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Tales from the Darkside: The second season episode "The Last Car" had five souls trapped for all eternity on an Afterlife Express with nothing but a box of sandwiches and eternal boredom to keep them busy. Whenever they go into a tunnel, they turn into skeletons and black out. | |
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Lucidity. The entire game is about Sofi reconciling the death of her Grandmother in a dream world. The game ends with Sofi getting to say one final goodbye before her Grandmother gets on the Afterlife Express. She wakes up soon after. | |
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A less obvious example in the second outro for Stardust Crusaders: there's a shot of the main cast sitting together in a train compartment, and Joseph is holding three tickets. | |
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In Guys and Dolls, the song "Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat" is about a dream the singer had about sailing away on the boat to Heaven. | |
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In the third Marla Mason book, Dead Reign, by T.A. Pratt, Marla journeys to the Underworld via a train made of the thighbone of a leviathan. She takes this train from a subway station in San Francisco. | |
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Inverted in Afterlife (1996) by LucasArts, in which trains are used to transport reincarnating SOULs back to the planet. | |
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A Superman arc sees Jimmy Olsen way way down on his luck, and missing a job interview (The Planet sacked him) by missing his train. Said train has The Parasite waiting on the tracks, and he drains them down to clothed skeletons, which are found at the next stop. Jimmy decides his luck may not be so bad after all. The cover to this issue has him running down the tracks as a skeletal train attendant bears the train down on him. | |
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In Final Fantasy Tactics, one of the wonders you can discover is a soul train. Likely a direct reference to the aforementioned Phantom Train from Final Fantasy VI, seeing how many of the other wonders in the game happen to be locations and objects from the previous games in the series. | |
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Iron Maiden has, besides "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (a Filk Song based on the poem mentioned above), "Ghost of the Navigator", where a sailor meets during his final journey a ship filled with ghosts (though Word of God states that they're "ghosts of his subconscious"). | |
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The Replacements features Splatter Train, an in-universe B-Movie about a ghostly train who murders teenagers at Make-Out Point. | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Sam and Max board the Soul Train to visit Hell, LLC. | |
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On "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by Genesis, the protagonist is trapped under a rockslide, awaiting death: | |
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In the South Park episode "Dead Celebrities" recently deceased celebrities (Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, David Carradine, Ed McMahon and and DJ AM") are stuck waiting on a plane to the afterlife that has yet to take off because Michael Jackson has not yet shown up. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: A very weird exception. There's the Spirit Train and a ghost who rides it (along with a living passenger), but the ghost in question gleefully giggles, smiles and plays around on the train while it drives around, removing all the creepiness from the situation and moving it into heartwarming territory instead. The game's commercial plays it straight. | |
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A high-level storyline of Fallen London allows the player character to involve themselves in the construction of the Great Hellbound Railway, for transporting passengers and shipments of souls between London and Hell. Hell has abolished all laws, including those of nature and logic, and the only thing making this project remotely possible is an alloy of railway steel that wants to go to its destination. It’s a lengthy, expensive, and politically delicate endeavour that requires navigating the interests of the British Government, Echo Bazaar and its Masters, the University of London, the Anglican Church, the Tracklayers' Union, the revolutionary Calendar Council, the deposed-and-exiled Grand Devils, and of course the infernal bureaucracy itself - and, if you are so inclined, you can find excuses to construct a statue of yourself at every station. Before the Railroad, the main route was via the Stolen River… formerly known as the Thames. Ever since London fell it’s flowed from Hell instead of Gloucestershire, with a network of Gondoliers responsible for escorting passengers. Note, though, that Hell is just the home of devils, not strictly a place people go when they die - it’s very hard to kill anyone permanently in London, they just can’t return to the Surface afterward, which paints the entire Neath as The Underworld in a poetic as well as literal sense. Most transit from the Surface to the Neath occurs via the Cumaean Canal, a masterpiece of engineering in its own right whose upper end is in Lake Avernus, Italy. |
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In Here Comes Mr. Jordan it's a plane. In it's 1978 remake, Heaven Can Wait, it's upgraded to a Concorde SST. | |
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Indie visual novel Train of Afterlife is entirely about... well, you can probably guess. | |
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The Give Yourself Goosebumps book, Secret Agent Grandma, sees you boarding one of these from out of nowhere in one of the book's worst endings. Specifically, you tried escaping some aliens by entering a train... and realize it's headed for hell, filled with deformed spirits and isn't going to stop. | |
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Hakaba Kitarō has the titular character put two other characters on a soul train as part of a hallucination. | |
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The train in the fifth The Dark is Rising book, Silver on the Tree. | |
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An episode of Hey Arnold! had Arnold, Helga and Gerald investigating an urban legend about one. The supposed train ends up arriving, and the trio get aboard... It turns out to be a train to a metalworking factory, and there is no ghost train after all... or is there? | |
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Gegege No Kitaro: Episode 7 of the 2018 anime features a cruel businessman boarding a mysterious train late at night. Throughout the trip, the man has some supernatural experiences, such as encountering the ghosts of former employees who had killed themselves after being fired. It turns out that the man had been Dead All Along, having been killed by the restless souls of his dead employees, and that the mysterious train he's on is heading towards Hell. | |
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Long John Scarechrome's ship in Filmation's Ghostbusters. | |
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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 faceless conductor and holding silent soul passengers (who are creepily represented as semi-featureless shadows). Kamaji comments that it "used to run both ways, but these days it's a one-way ride." | |
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The Frighteners has an afterlife express, but it only goes to Hell (those who go to Heaven just sort of appear there). In a way, it looks more like a gigantic worm that swallows whoever it's transporting and then sticks pieces of its own skin into them to make sure they stay in place/torture them. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager introduces the Barge of the Dead, from the episode of the same name, where the dishonored souls of Klingons are sent to Gre'thor, or hell. | |
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The Black Engine in Deathwatch campaign The Emperor Protects. It's a daemonic entity in the form of a train, which follows rails designed to allow it to become incorporeal and exist outside real-space. In exchange for its services, transporting psychic individuals so their souls can be drained, it's fed human slaves on every round-trip. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "Passages", MacGyver is thrown off a parking garage while trying to stop the theft of an Egyptian artifact and falls into a coma. During his Adventures in Comaland, he follows his grandfather onto a boat taking people to Heaven, and he sees his parents and makes peace with the fact that he is dead. But Grandpa Harry reveals to him that Pete will die too unless he comes back to life, so he escapes the boat and has a resurrection. | |
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Creepypasta: Midnight Train is about all the times the narrator sees the Downbound Train, almost exactly as Chuck Berry described. Valkyrie is about one of Heinrich Himmler's occult pet projects: an armored train crewed by the dead. Something, probably the vengeful Jewish souls used in its construction, causes the project to have Gone Horribly Wrong, and it instead ferries dead nazis to Hell. |
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Zekkyou Gakkyuu: The bus in "The Bus To the Underworld," (translated as "Bus To Hell" by some groups, though it actually goes to a generic afterlife, rather than Hell). Apparently you can board even if you're not officially dead, as Miku, the protagonist boards it and wakes up in her house after refusing to get off at the stop, with her family revealing she collapsed at the station and was in a coma for three days. | |
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On the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Graveyard Shift", Squidward tells SpongeBob the story of the Hash-Slinging Slasher, who on every - what day is it? - Tuesday night comes to the Krusty Krab on the ghost of the bus that ran him over. Later that night, a bus arrives in a cloud of fog. | |
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At the end of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, the five passengers alight from the train to find themselves on a deserted platform. A floating newspaper informs them that they died in a train accident, and Dr. Schreck reveals himself as Death. | |
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Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones has one of these. | |
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Played with in Inception. The train that is mentioned in the famous quote was actually used by the main character and his wife to return to reality after being trapped in a dream state. Not by boarding the train, though, but by deliberately letting it run them over, since the usual way of exiting a dream is by killing yourself. | |
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The episode "Eternity" from The Galaxy Railways features one of these. It comes at midnight every few months to a specific platform; you ride it until you're ready to move on. | |
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In an episode of the second season of The Hollow, the protagonists enter a a subway train from the French metro system and have to stop it from going out of control. Once they solve the puzzle, the passengers reveal that the train was this. | |
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