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Thread #100477 Message #2016855
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
04-Apr-07 - 10:00 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Engine 143 / Wreck on the C & O
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Engine 143
The Clifton Forge newspaper also said that No. 4 was eastbound- "As the vestibule train was coming east Thursday morning it ran into a slide near Don, a short distance east of Hinton." The train was coming from Sewell (one of those signs you see out of a RR window, but not noticeable as a town), 40 miles west of Hinton.
Hinton is a wide spot on the road, on Hwy 33 (Rawley Pike). Staunton is SW of Hinton.
Was Foster going or coming from Staunton? Is the story about him 'deadheading home to Staunton' incorrect? The detail is not important to the story or the song, but it twiggles the brain.
Clifton Forge had a large maintenance facility for the C. & O.
The rail line runs about NNE-SSW rather than E-W in this region.