Casey Jones wreck site

Name	Type	Comments	Date

Virgil Fitzpatrick	General	History remembers. And since every rule is written in blood, that signal prob. owes it's existance due to the wreck	7/15/2009 2:55:32 PM

Jim Dodds	General	What is the name of the railroad that owns the old CN Grenada Sub now?	3/30/2010 4:02:16 PM

Joe Marascalco	General	The Grenada Railway, owned by A&K Railroad Materials, you are looking at endangered track	3/30/2010 5:55:06 PM

C.S. Jackson	General	Not anymore, Joe.	11/12/2015 3:17:59 PM

Joe Marascalco	General	very true Clarence!	11/12/2015 5:32:53 PM

Casey Jones wreck site
Early in the morning on April 30, 1900 at about this location going this same direction, Casey Jones' fireman, Sim Webb, saw the caboose of train #83 around the curve and bailed off the 382 somewhere around the creek bridge you see just ahead. The famous collision happened a few carlenghts past the bridge. If only that block signal right there would have been here then...
Date: 11/22/2006	Location: Vaughan, MS Map	Views: 1132	Collection Of: Joe Marascalco
			Author: Joe Marascalco

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