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14 Dec

The date of Billy Richardson's fatal last train ride

A popular train song commemorates the death of a locomotive engineer in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia. Billy Richardson, an engineer on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad from 1878 to 1910, was known to run fast and on time. People along the...

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