Blue Comet 75 Anniversary Event

Here is some more information. Wish I was able to make it.

http://search.app.com/localeve...ck-of-the-Blue-Comet

Thank you for posting.  I did not know about this.  It would be fun, but I can't make it.  I checked the weather forecast - little chance of rain that day, which would be ironic.

Wow • Railroad history up close. 

Interesting documentary of the 1939 wreck on this website:

(left column, third video from the top) 

http://robertemmons.com/

I found this video on Youtube.  A family goes in search of the wreck site of the Blue Comet.

the address given is a house on main and the map provided is in the middle of the woods.

When you read about the wreck, it had to be very frightening, in a storm, knowing (if you were the engineer, etc., that there might be problems, doing what you could to slow down, knowing that stopping or slowing too much might cause its own problems, etc.  Wow.  They were actually quite lucky that many more were not killed, as they would have been had they not slowed the train a lot.

Hi Lee - I was watching a couple of documentaries on the internet last night about the wreck and none of the documentaries mentioned that anyone died as a result of the wreck.  The two worst injuries are back related when the train jumped the tracks.  Where there any deaths as a result?

The chef later died of his injuries.