1930s wreck at Boyce

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Frank,
A quick google search ("boyce, va train wreck") comes up with a NY Times
article for a wreck on Aug 21, 1919 that occurred a few hundred yards
north of the station.  Could this be it?
Toney Minter

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> Frank,

>

> I couldn't find any listing of such a train wreck in the online ICC

> Historical Railroad Investigation Reports.  Could it have been a crossing

> accident?

>

> Gordon Hamilton

>

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>> Hello all:

>>

>> Barbara Adams wrote her recollections about growing up in Boyce.  She was

>> born in 1937.  Her paternal grandfather and grandmother were Sylvester and

>> Helen Lane.  Sylvester was the third agent-operator at Boyce, working

>> there between 1933 and 1952.

>>

>> Maude and Roger Strode were Barbara's paternal grandparents.  When they

>> were first married, they lived in a white stucco house by the railroad

>> tracks near the Old Chapel Road crossing, which is about 1/5th of a mile

>> north of Boyce station.  They told Barbara "...about a bad train wreck in

>> the early 1930's at the crossing by their house. Injured people were

>> brought in the house," and Barbara still has a Pullman blanket that was

>> used to cover an injured person in the yard."

>>

>> I've been reviewing microfilmed newspapers but haven't discovered a news

>> report about a Boyce accident.  It must have been either train 1 or train

>> 2, both of which passed through Boyce around midnight and had a NY-Roanoke

>> sleeper.

>>

>> Has anyone heard of a train accident at Boyce?  I'd appreciate any

>> details, or even just the year it occurred, to narrow my newspaper search.

>>

>> Best wishes,

>>

>> Frank Scheer

>> f_scheer at yahoo.com

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