Genuinely hadn't thought about the railroad angle until someone mentioned it in the bigfoot thread last month and now I can't stop seeing the pattern. Old disused lines especially - the ones that cut through woodland and were abandoned decades ago. There's something about those corridors isn't there, long straight paths through dense habitat, minimal human disturbance for years.
I've been going back through a few witness reports from the US and a handful from here in the UK (yes we have our own dogman accounts, people sleep on that) and the proximity to old rail routes does come up more than you'd expect.
My skeptical side says its just that rail corridors create ideal wildlife movement routes so of course something large and unusual would use them. But my other side wonders if theres something older going on, ley lines often follow the same geography that railways were later built along.
Anyone got specific cases they can point to? Dates, locations, anything concrete would be brilliant rather than just vibes.