There is an interesting thread that has just been started in the New York Railfan Forum in which respondents have been writing about the creepiest places they have visited along railroads in the state. I thought I would get it going in the New England forum. My initial nominee: the old Clinton Tunnel on the B&M's Central Mass. Branch --- built in 1903, abandoned in 1959, and still there in all its bone-chilling glory. I've walked through it twice. It's fascinating, but it is indeed creepy. I never saw a rat, but I'm sure they run around in there. It looks especially dark and sinister from the east end, from the overpass on Clamshell Road --- like a place where Shelob, the giant spider, would hang out.
Some of the deep cuts along the Central Mass. near Rutland, the Cheshire north of Troy, NH and the CNE west of Norfolk, CT (Stony Lonesome) give one a foreboding feeling too. At least the roadbed through the Charnock Cut in Rutland has been paved for a bike trail. I'm sure there are other such areas that are equally dark.
Some of the deep cuts along the Central Mass. near Rutland, the Cheshire north of Troy, NH and the CNE west of Norfolk, CT (Stony Lonesome) give one a foreboding feeling too. At least the roadbed through the Charnock Cut in Rutland has been paved for a bike trail. I'm sure there are other such areas that are equally dark.