Quote Originally Posted by Psychotic View Post
I think it's supposed to represent an updated version of Charon's ferry from Greek mythology. I don't think the train is magical, or an esper, so the destruction of magic wouldn't have any effect on it.
I agree with that. The Phantom train just is.

In a way, the train would take all the departed, but if the train didn't exist via magic/espers, then in technicalities people couldn't die because they couldn't be departed to the other side. It'd be like that family guy episode with death.

Point is, I think the train is a higher power of it's own, I think it exists because humans exist, if there were no humans to die, then it would have no reason to exist and it's existance would end.