I am looking for info (date, location, train, fatalities, circumstances etc) on the wrecks which claimed the following LW passenger cars:

Coach 839 wrecked at Woodstock AL 11/25/51 on train #47 17 fatalities, correct ? Baggage-Dorm-Coach 700 Mississippi wrecked at Woodstock AL 11/25/51 on train #48 17 fatalities correct ? Coach 814 Roanoke wrecked circa 1955 possibly at Hazelhurst GA 10/8/55 Sleeper 2300 Luther Calvin Norris wrecked circa 1974 Diner 3305 burned circa 1975 Sleeper 2000 Alapaha River wrecked circa 1975 Baggage-Dorm 710 wrecked circa 1977 possibly at Spencer NC 10/8/77 Baggage-Dorm-Coach 705 Johnson City wrecked circa 1978 possibly at Elma VA 12/3/78 Sleeper 2353 Crescent Shores wrecked circa 1978 possibly at Elma VA 12/3/78 Coach 818 wrecked circa 1978 possibly at Elma VA 12/3/78 Coach 833 wrecked circa 1978 possibly at Elma VA 12/3/78

-- Larry E. Shankles (larrys@ksdot.org), January 25, 2001

Answers

Reports on the Woodstock and Hazelhurst wrecks can be found at:

http://specialcollections.tasc.dot.gov/scripts/rsi.dll? login&un=rail&pw=railpass$

-- Jack Wyatt (cjwyatt@bellsouth.net), January 25, 2001.