1930s wreck at Boyce

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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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