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1943 Rennert railroad accident, Rennert, North Carolina; 74 killed. North Carolina's deadliest rail disaster to date [136] [137] [138] 1944 Stockton train wreck, Stockton, Georgia; 47 killed plus 41 injured. State of Georgia's deadliest rail disaster to date [139] [140] 1944 "Tragedy on Election Day", Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; 16 killed plus 50 ...
Downtown Dillsboro was partially flooded in 2024 during Hurricane Helene. The Jarrett House and Elias Brendle Monteith House and Outbuildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [12] Gertrude Dills McKee, first woman elected to the North Carolina State Senate, was a native of Dillsboro; she was the daughter of William Allen ...
The railroad owns the Smoky Mountain Trains Museum in Bryson City, North Carolina; located across Greenlee Street from the Bryson City Depot. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] The museum features a collection of over 7,000 Lionel model engines, cars and accessories, a large model train layout, a children's activity center, and a gift shop.
The train was struck by a tractor-trailer at a grade crossing. HAR-12-03. October 29, 2014 Empire Service: Clermont, New York: Employee collision 1 0 The train struck a track worker. RAB-15-06: March 9, 2015: Carolinian: Halifax, North Carolina: Grade crossing 0 74 The train struck a truck with an oversize load at a grade crossing. HQ-2015-1025 ...
The train rolls to a stop as smoke and dust begin rising from the damaged truck. The company’s excavator is manufactured by CASE Construction Equipment, whose larger models weigh more than ...
April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...
The train wreck scene in The Fugitive was filmed 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Sylva in the town of Dillsboro. The scene of Harrison Ford walking on railroad tracks in an old tunnel was also close by in Cowee Tunnel. [16] The town was also the site of filming for the 2017 film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. [17] [18]
A former Southern Railway depot in Bryson City, North Carolina, now serving as the main headquarter of the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (GSMR). The Murphy Branch is a branch line operated by the Western North Carolina Railroad, later the Richmond and Danville, Southern Railway, the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and today the Blue Ridge Southern Railroad.