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

Category: Railroad industry

John Henry was hammering

The legend began in Big Bend Tunnel, Summers County, WV, which CSX Railroad still uses today. He was the most powerful man working the rails.

A faction developed unfriendly to Mr. Carter, and in 1901, by snap methods, the company was thrown by Moore and Schley into receivers’ hands.

The 1912 Barranshe Run mishap was one of the more dramatic log train wrecks in WV history. The victims’ bodies were buried in logs.

My parents were Italian immigrants. They settled in WV, where my father came over at the age of seventeen, where he was a bookkeeper.

The “Swamp Rabbit,” true to its name, did not mind inequalities in its pathway, so the track went up and down, following the lay of the land.

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