- November 26th, 2019, 6:53 am#4927297My guess is the spectral vehicle is created out of culmination of several energies and spirits.
One being the PKE energy picked up by the train/vehicle itself during its lifespan, the consistent physicality of people getting on and off, the energy of its own self getting from place to place.
Another factor is the attachment the living persons have to the vehicle. If it was something they did everyday in their routine. Especially if there was a central conductor/captain/driver whose life was the vehicle.
The other factor is in most residual hauntings, the apparition repeats its everyday "life", repeating the seconds/minutes before its death. (or repeating it's death over and over) especially in terms of a tragic crash or sinking.
Ghost Ships and Ghost Trains i believe are a culmination of these factors. rather than being the 'ghost' of an inanimate object, it's more the energies that took place within and the attachments to the lives and deaths of the passengers.
of course the ones in the movies are played for laughs, so they bend the rules a bit.