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

Category: Railroad industry

The iron horse throbbing on the ribbons of steel

The saddest episode in the Western NC Railroad construction occurred when workers were constructing the 863-foot Cowee Mountain Tunnel.

Norfolk Southern has raised $1.5 million to support restoration efforts of the ‘611’ locomotive at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

On a cold Saturday morning in Dillsboro, NC, an accident occurred which the Raleigh Observer would call “the most awful that has happened.”

This recent private commission by cut paper collage artist Alice Feagan depicts the small town of Saluda in the mountains of western NC.

After a serious accident in 1891 in Ohio, caused by the malfunction of an engineer’s watch, Webb C. Ball established unified watch standards.

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