N&W in 1903 -- Expensive Derailment

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TWENTY THREE CARS DERAILED
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Were Loaded With Merchandise and Goods were Strewn Along Track
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    Roanoke, Va., August 12. -- Norfolk and Western freight train No. 83, south bound, was wrecked at Tinker Creek about 12 o'clock today.  A draw bar pulled out and fell down, and caused the derailment of twenty three cars.  No one was Injured.
    Twenty one of the cars were loaded with all kinds of merchandise, and nearly all of them were smashed up badly and the goods strewn and piled up all along a watermelon patch.

Bluefield Daily Telegraph
August 13, 1903

[The watermelon patch was in North Roanoke on the Shenandoah Division.]

Gordon Hamilton
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