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The FFV, the Chesapeake & Ohio's luxury passenger train, was heading east to Washington, D.C. in the early morning of 23 October 1890 when it struck a rockslide three miles outside Hinton in Summers County, West Virginia. [4] The train's 30-year-old engineer George Alley tried to stop, but the engine overturned, and he was trapped in the ...
"Therefore I Am" is a song by American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and the second single from her second studio album, Happier Than Ever (2021). It was released on November 12, 2020, through Darkroom and Interscope Records. It is an uptempo, hip hop-influenced pop, electropop, and R&B track.
The song describes a train wreck in Ingleside, West Virginia. The lyrics, which are essentially documentary, describe how, on "a bright Spring morning on the twenty-fourth of May," 1927, the engineer, E. G. Aldrich of Roanoke, Virginia, known as "Dad," and his fireman, Frank M. O'Neill of Pax, West Virginia, running train number three, "left ...
By the mid-1940s, the Chesapeake Western operated a total of 53.5 miles in the Shenandoah Valley and interchanges with the C&O, N&W, and Southern Railways. [1] On January 1, 1943 the railway purchased some of the former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's tracks from Harrisonburg, Virginia to Lexington, Virginia but abandoned the route from Staunton ...
The railroad of the Kanawha and West Virginia Railroad Company, herein called the Kanawha and West Virginia, is a single-track, standard-gage, steam railroad, located in West Virginia. The main line extends from Charleston to Blakeley, a distance of 33.329 miles, and a detached line extends from Belva to Swiss, 3.929 miles, a total of 37.258 miles.
In 1878, Kimball became the prime mover behind the construction of the Shenandoah Valley Railroad, which was building up the Shenandoah Valley. In 1881, the Clark firm bought at auction the foreclosed Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad (AM&O), an east-west railroad across Virginia controlled by William Mahone. Kimball, who was a partner in ...
The Kingwood Tunnel, near Tunnelton, West Virginia, was built between 1849 and 1852 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on its main line between Baltimore, Maryland and Wheeling, West Virginia, under the supervision of B&O chief engineer Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.