About 10:30 o’clock Wednesday morning the Louisburg Train on its morning trip from Franklinton to Louisburg, in front of the Wiley Holmes home place. For the past 10 or 15 years, the train has been backed into Louisburg owing to the turntables having been allowed to go to pieces. It was on one of these backing trips that the tender left the track. This caused the train to be torn up and let the locomotive to the ground Luckily, no one was hurt as the train was not moving so fast, but that it was stopped before it turned over. The track was torn up for quite a distance.
The wrecking crew from Raleigh was soon on the job and work was begun to clear the track, which was done very quickly.
The exact cause of the trouble has not been determined. Some guessed it to be rotten cross ties causing the track to spread, others were of the opinion it was trouble with the locomotive—it having just left the shops that morning. Still others think running the train backwards had as much to do with it as anything else.
All trains Wednesday were annulled and the mail and express were brought over from Franklinton by truck.
From the front page of The Franklin Times, Louisburg, N.C., Friday, March 6, 1925
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