C & O Freight & Section Crew Wreck, The

DESCRIPTION: "In the Big Shady Valley of Kentucky, a division of the famous C & O," a train with Jay Thompson and Doc Compton aboard is wrecked in the Big Sandy Valley in a collision with three motor cars
AUTHOR: Words: Rev. E. J. Shumway?
EARLIEST DATE: 1972 (C & O Historical Society Newsletter, according to Lyle)
KEYWORDS: train wreck
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1918 - the C & O collision
FOUND IN:
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Lyle-ScaldedToDeathByTheSteam, p. 160, "C. & O. Freight and Section Crew Wreck" (1 text)
Cohen-LongSteelRail, p. 274, "The C & O Freight & Section Crew Wreck" (notes only)
File: LSRa274L

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