Six box cars of potatoes were among the 16 detailed. This photo labeled “potatoes” has lumpy bags of … probably potatoes … in the foreground.
One of the train wreck photos from Dorie Gebhard. It shows a “wrecking crane” on a flat car. Two cranes cleared the site, starting from opposite ends. Enough wreckage of the 6 am wreck was cleared by 5 pm to allow passenger trains to get through. To see the other photographs, go to TableRockHistoricalSociety. com and search “1928 train wreck.”
How majestic is a train of cars as it passes swiftly over the iron rails! You have watched it hundreds of times with awe and admiration. You have pondered over the mighty force of the engine as it pulls its long string of cars loaded with human necessities to meet human demands in the farthermost corners of the world.
As you watch it you think: No wonder an engineer loves his engine, and that the n…
