Haunted Wyoming: Spectral Train Still Runs Through Ghost Town Of Cinnabar

A far-off whistle of a steam locomotive can be heard as it approaches the Cinnabar Depot at the North Entrance of Yellowstone National Park.

“It arrives at Cinnabar just about the same time every year,” Shellie Larios said in ‘Yellowstone Ghost Stories.’ “Coal black in color, it stops and lets off a big burst of steam. It does not have an engineer, nor does it carry a conductor.”

Larios said that no passengers would disembark, but the Ghost Train will still stop. As it does, clouds have been known to suddenly cover the moon and the temperature instantly drops. The air becomes filled with the familiar smell of oily, musty burning coal.

Then, as the old engine discharges its final blast of steam into the night, the tired old Ghost Train slowly fades in an ebony-shrouded mist and dissipate