I've been thinking I should talk Janie into taking me on a tour of Train Wreck Sites of the South. Last year, she took me to the site of the Wreck of the Old 97 in Danville, Virginia, and later I found a song about The Wreck of Number 52 that took place along our way from the Raleigh-Durham area to Danville.

This is a fascinating song, and I thought it would be fun to go to the site of this wreck. Alas, Norm Cohen's Long Steel Rail says this is a fictional song by Carson J. Robison, copyrighted January 13, 1927 - so there's no train wreck site to visit.

There's a very nice study of this song here:

http://www.lizlyle.lofgrens.org/RmOlSngs/RTOS-NumberNine.html

-Joe-