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Category: Railroad industry

May 26, 2017 Ohio / Railroad industry

Final run of the Bellaire, Zanesville, and Cincinnati Railway

On the long grades, when the ‘Bent, Zig-zag and Crooked’ was heavily loaded, passengers sometimes got off and walked along side, even pushed on some occasions.

Hauling the last shipment of Confederate gold

The Blue Ridge Rail Road was called the Old Blunder Buss in those days, and the people seemed not to realize the importance and the great future of the railroads

March 24, 2017 Railroad industry / Virginia / Writers

Book Review: ‘Chasing the Powhatan Arrow’

Michael Abraham continues to stake his claim as one of Appalachia’s top regional writers. His obvious love of railroading shines through here.

train cook peers through bullet hole window in robbed B&O train 1949

March 10, 2017 Appalachian crime / Bank robbers/robberies / Railroad industry / West Virginia

The Great B&O Train Robbery

Willie Davis, train cook, peers through hole in diner window made by bullet from bandit’s gun in the Great Train Robbery of 1949.

March 6, 2015 Appalachian crime / Bank robbers/robberies / Railroad industry / West Virginia

Book Excerpt: ‘Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails’

‘Bedlam’ is a true story firsthand account by America’s last moving train robber as told to author Wilson Casey.

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