4:20 To Nevermore #15038

The Story

Pappy McCall is putting in another day of work on the Great Divide & Nevermore Railroad. Most skeleton spooks don’t have to work after retiring to the Town of Afterlife, but Pappy always loved working as a brakeman for the railroad in The Before. These days, he’d rather not lay around the vault…having something to do for Eternity is much better. Here he is switching cars in the railroad yard in the town of Great Divide, making up a train leaving for Nevermore at 4:20 sharp.

Pappy is simply sticking with what he knows and still enjoys, railroading, but this time as a skeleton railroader. Old railroaders never die, they simply sign on with another railroad in The After hauling freight of a slightly different nature. These railroad cars might be part of some kind of soul train for all any mere mortal might know.

Besides, someone has to keep things moving despite the circumstances. Otherwise, everything would come to a dead stop.

Although skeleton spooks can see in the dark, Pappy has his old railroad lantern for signaling the locomotive engineer up ahead it’s almost time for the train to leave for Nevermore on the dot at 4:20 PM. The lantern is also good for scaring the be-cheezus out of any kids who happen to come near the railroad tracks at night. A skeleton with a swinging red lantern is a clear signal it’s time to run as fast as you can!

Railroading is dirty work with long hours, but somehow this spook knows how to keep his bones clean. They do rattle a little when the train gets going, though. There’s always a little wear and tear on a body from a life in motion working the freight trains, but Pappy says everything seems to be holding together pretty well despite the mileage.

It’s 4:20…gotta go…

For more skeleton humor and what goes on in the Town of Afterlife, check out the Skeleton Gallery on the website for a dark humor laugh.

Location: the ghost town of Great Divide, with a train soon to leave at 4:20 to Nevermore by way of Afterlife. Picture and story © Andrew Dierks.