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RailroadTreasures offers the following item: Scalded to Death by Steam by KAtie Letcher Lyle Soft Cover Scalded to Death by the Steam by Katie Letcher LyleName and date written on inside front cover
Authentic stories of railroad disasters and the ballads that were written about them. Algonquin Books. Words and music to famous railroad ballads.Soft Cover213 pagesCopyright 1988
CONTENTSIntroduction 1The Wreck of the Old 9714The Wreck on the C & 034The N & W Cannonball Wreck50The New Market Wreck57Billy Richardson\'s Last Ride68The Hamlet Wreck77The Guyandotte Bridge Disaster83The Wreck of C & O No. 592The Wreck of the 1256102The Church Hill Tunnel Disaster116The Freight Wreck at Altoona125The Wreck of the Royal Palm132The Wreck of the Virginian Train No. 3141Three in Kentucky152The Wreck of the Sportsman163Spikes on the Rail173The Wreck of Old 85182Others:188The Wreck Between New Hope & Gethsemane; The Wreck of the Flyer, Duquesne; The Wreck of No. 3; The Wreck of the 444; The Fate of Talmadge Osborne; The Powellton Labor Train Explosion; The Ride to HellBibliography 205Index208INTRODUCTIONIThe city council met last night; the vote was four to three, To tear the home town depot down, and build a factory, To take that strip of history, and tear it off the map, To take old Engine Number Nine, and melt her into scrap ... (\"Blue Water Line,\" Anonymous)In my grandparents\' house where I spent some years as a child in the mid-forties, there was an old wind-up Victrola with packets of needles and a cabinet full of old records. There was also a delicate lady\'s guitar with one frizzled string.On rainy days, I played the Victrola. One of the first records I discovered was Vernon Dalhart\'s \"Wreck of the Old 97.\" I listened to it over and over, thrilling to the words. \"The Wreck of the 1256,\" \"The Wreck of the Virginian No. 3,\" \"The Wreck of the C & O No. 5\"-all these I loved and learned. My grandfather was something of a train buff, and encouraged my singing. Among his frequent homilies was the story of the brave engineer Billy Richardson who had been tragically killed on duty. He urged me to remember, perhaps sensing that the railroad, at least as he knew it, was dying.Lexington had once been a fairly busy rail terminal. By the tracks that ran down behind my grandparents\' house I stood every day in summer, making friends long-distance with the nameless engineer who backed the only slow C & O freight engine into Lexington each morning around eleven, then took it out again a while later, this time headfirst. Soon it would stop coming altogether.
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