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The Haunted Railroad Bridge

During a bitterly frigid winter night in the late 1800's, a fire occurred on the original railroad trestle in Hartford, VT. A train, the Montreal Express, with passenger cars carrying 78 people, derailed and burned. Tragically, thirty-six people had either been crushed, drowned or burned alive , including a boy and his father. Vermont’s worst railroad disaster. The old wooden bridge was replaced with a steel structure on the original concrete footings. The bridge spans the White River and Route 14 in West Hartford.

People in nearby Hartford avoid that section of road near the failed trestle late at night. Probably just as well since the few who have rallied their courage to go out have come back in shock. The smell of burning wood, a ghostly railway worker, and a small boy who materializes just above the river as if standing on the ice, have been just some of the apparitions. What really sobers even the hardest soul are the cries for help, the wailing and screaming, as if those lost that night are reliving their greatest tragedy.