At 100 years old, "The Ghost Train" may be showing its age a bit, but is nonetheless a fun and spooky, if slightly wacky, ride.
The 1934 thriller is at Pennsylvania Playhouse at 390 Illicks Mill Road, Bethlehem through April 2.
Things are not as they seem in the story of a group of travelers who find themselves trapped overnight in an isolated old railway station where a local legend tells of a haunted train that comes through at night, leaving death in its wake.
The six travelers include a newlywed couple, an estranged couple, an older spinster and a foppish young man who seems to find the situation endlessly amusing. 
Matthew Contakes as the station master is nervously superstitious and adds an air of foreboding as he not so reluctantly tells the travelers it is the 20th anniversary of mysterious and ghostly happenings that left half a dozen people dead.
Stephen Simone and Bryanna Pye play Richard and Elsie Winthrop, married just a year, but on the outs.
Evan Heger and Mackenzie Schmidt are the madly-in-love newlyweds Charles and Peggy Murdock.
Simones Richard is somewhat blustery at first while Hegers Charles is more even-tempered. However, both men are portrayed as practical, intelligent and stalwart in the face of unknown danger making them the focus of most of the action.
The women are a little less well drawn. Pyes Elsie is initially appealingly feisty, while Schmidts Peggy is more of a supportive but passive wife.
As Miss Bourne, an unmarried woman of a certain age traveling alone with a caged bird, Beth Sucro is strong-willed and prickly. However the character spends much of the play passed out.
Although the performances are strong all around, the stand out is Lawrence Mason as the buffoonish dandy Teddie Deakin. Mason has great comic timing as the character enigmatically teases and toys with the other travelers.
Halfway through the tale, three more people mysteriously turn up at the station. Alyssa Steiner is loopily over the top as the hysterical Julia Price who claims to have a psychic connection with the station.
Tom Gilmore and Judy Evans are solid as Julias concerned relatives (or are they') who are trying to take her home.
Among all these people, strange things happen as the plot heads to its convoluted denouement.
Director Andrew Maldonado takes all these disparate parts and ties them together into a cohesive, if dubious storyline. He has added plenty of jump scares in the show and sound is a key factor in building tension, through well-timed screams, mysterious knocks on the door, weird singing and, of course, that ghostly train.
Brett Oliveras set and light design are practically characters in themselves. The set is appropriately shabby with dilapidated windows that conveniently reveal strange shadows and lights. Lightning and power outages add to the spooku atmosphere.
Todd Burkels costumes are fun and evoke a flapper-esque vibe.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. March 18, 24-25, 31, April 1; and 3 p.m. March 19, 26, April 2.
Tickets are $25 for adults; $22 for seniors and $15 for students,
For information, call 610-865-6665 or go to www.paplayhouse.org.