Ghostly trains or deadly storms so many possibilities

I tried to find you some links with railroad info so see what time your ghosts might be from. and the best I have found so far is

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?gmd:0:./temp/~ammem_6LEL:

But you might also consider the possibility that it wasn't a train at all They had a huge tornado in goliad in 1942

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/GG/hjg5.html

When a tornado hits it is commonly thought to sound like a train and would also shake the house and surrounding area.