Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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. [19] [20]
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 ...
A freight train traveling through Texas’s Reeves County derailed when it collided with a tractor-trailer, before slamming into a building, authorities said, leaving two people dead and three ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
The crash happened at about 8:30 a.m. Friday when the car got stuck on the tracks north of Forsyth. WATCH: Driver escapes with seconds to spare before train crashes into car in Monroe County Skip ...
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.