Wreck at Ellett on Virginian

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Ray,

You can read the ICC accident report for this 1927 head-on collision at Ingleside here:

http://ntl1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?websearch&site=dot_railroads

Gordon Hamilton
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  While in the Ellett convenience store last evening, I saw a picture labeled "Wreck at New Ellett."   A Virginian freight headed by box cab electrics and a steam engine (could not determine if pulling a freight or passenger train but passenger is more likely) had collided head on and the steam engine was resting on top of the first electric box cab at about a 45 degree angle.  Many people were standing about but there was little evidence of "emergency" activity.

   

  Does anyone know when this happened (could have been between about 1925 and 1955), why  it happened, or anything else about it?

   

   

        Ray Smoot



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