[N&W] Re: Franklin Furnace - Gennett

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I remember hearing about that wreck. The engineer who was killed had a son 
who lived by my father's grocery store. (This was in the 60's).  If I 
remember correctly the tamperer was an ex-employee.  There was a rumor he 
got caught by bragging about it in a bar, in Ironton.  Anyway, I believe 
the tamperer had a date with "Old Smokey" in Columbus, Ohio.

My thanks to Mr. Tom Dressler for filling me in on some of the details.

A.J. Gemperline


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>To: N&W Mailing List <mailing-list at nwhs.org>
>Subject: Re: Franklin Furnace - Gennett
>Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 22:26:59 -0400
>
>I will appreciate any help with this where are the photo;s located for this
>wreck are there any on the Virginia Tech Pages.
>
>             Thomas McCracken
>___________________________________________________
>There was an incident which occurred eight miles
>east of Franklin Furnace and eight years prior to the
>1940 time frame. On April 21, 1932, No. 4 - Eng 133
>entered the west switch of the middle track at Union
>at an estimated speed of 50 MPH and overturned,
>fouling the westward main track Investigation revealed
>that the accident was caused by malicious tampering
>with the switch. Oddly enough, the section foreman
>had found that the same switch had been tampered
>with the previous day. It isn't indicated in the report,
>but I believe a postal employee was later arrested
>and tried in Portsmouth.
>
>Harry Bundy