Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: Railroad industry

She haunted that damn train all night!

He put a piece of paper on the table, “Here is the number of that engine, you get it sometime and strange things happen, you will know why!”

Buck Nichols still rests beneath tons of dirt in the collapsed tunnel. Most hikers will pass through the new tunnel, unaware of the tragedy.

Robert Ullom was unlucky around timber. When he cheated death in 1912, the car he was in careened around 3 horse drawn wagons hauling timber.

Newspapers called it “the Christiansburg-Blacksburg Railroad.” Here’s how the railroad became connected in people’s minds to huckleberries.

“Telegraphy was interesting work. It was a big responsibility then. At that time it was harder for a woman to get a job.”

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