Tragedy on the Tracks-Locations and grave-Williamson, West Virginia

[@RoyWade-bv8nu]

So sad...... I lost 3 cousins from a train accident. Always stop, look, and listen. And never try to beat a train...... you'll lose every time.

[@darren7218]

Good story Leo. My dad told me this story. My grand parents as well as my dad lived on parkway drive. One uncle was there when it happened. They did tell her a train was coming. Dad said you could see parts and peices of body parts up the tracks. My dad told me they were buried right above where the old West End Grade school was located. The Graves have no markers That would be the lower curve where you parked your car..the bottom part of that loop. The Damron lady dad said she stood in the tracks and pulled up her 15:46 apron to cover her eyes. She knew what was coming at her and she did not want to see. She did own green houses where the the apartments sit near the basketball courts the upper end near apartment 1 is located...on the road that is now Damron Drive . Thanks for the video. Webb from Williamson.

[@connie2558]

Sad story but something tells me they appreciate you reminding everyone, especially how lovely Ruby lead you right to her. Thanks.

[@OldGearTech]

It's a shame how a tragedy (or multiple tragedies) have to occur in order to have a few simple safeguards made. One has to remember in the '50s and '60s there was another building in the vacant lot on the Old US 52 side of the crossing. So you were essentially going up to a blind crossing between two buildings with no way to see what was coming. Couple that with kids being loud or a radio with the volume turned up and there are so many ways it could not end well. A very nice tribute to a family and another lady who were both cut down before their time.

[@melaniegudgel1]

A terribly sad story but you are absolutely correct, the things that happened afterward make it almost bearable. (Almost) we used to try to beat the train at lunchtime in order to get back to school on time. One day some of our classmates didn’t make it. We never did it again and the next year they made our school a closed campus meaning you couldn’t leave without permission. We were so stupid doing that. It’ll never happen to us. 🤦‍♀️

[@kathynorris2371]

Thank you Heather and Leo for sharing these stories and remembering these precious people!🙏❤️

[@VerlinThacker-u2l]

What a sad story. Thanks for sharing, great job Leo and Heather.

[@bluladie]

Train tragedies are so sad. Trains can't stop on time. People try and beat them and die. Don't test your luck with a train... 😢 Thank you, Leo. Hey Heather 👋

[@frypatty]

Thank you Heather and Leo for your great videos! I always look forward to them 😊

[@kathyleighton9091]

Something similar happened yrs ago in an area where I lived. A car stalled on the tracks and the man was trying to start it when the train came along. It claimed the father, his teenage daughter and her friend. The car wasn't even recognizable as it was so badly damaged.

[@mysticmimaw]

Sad stories but thank goodness the railroads have taken measures to improve safety. Thanks Leo and Heather 😊❤

[@FleegerLinda]

My great grandad got killed on train tracks in Kentucky. Loretta Lynn's dad and my great grandad was first cousin's and the walked to the coal mine every day. But on this day my great grandad was a lone, so no one knows why he was on the track when the train came. His name is Henry Ramey. ( Butcher Hollar Kentucky )

[@judypierce7028]

Oh my goodness! How sad and tragic! I was born and raised in a house with railroad tracks just across the road. Thank goodness my family while traveling never tried to beat the train. Once I started driving and would come close to a railroad track crossing, my mother would say "Don't get too close to those tracks or it will cause the engine to turn off." Now, I understand the first part of what she meant, but the latter part about my engine cutting off is still a mystery. I am so glad that the railroad now has a crossing gate. Thank you Leo for this bittersweet piece of history. I just wanted you to know that while traveling to Flat Rock, NC from Louisville to deliver donated goods to the victims of Helene, I spent the night in Gatlinburg before moving on. I turned on the TV to "Mysteries of the Museum," a program that I love. WOW! The mystery shared was the Hatfield-McCoy feud. An interesting piece of history at the Big Sandy Museum was shown from the feud to introduce this story. It was so interesting, but no depth. You and Heather have done so much research and shared with the audience about this feud had so much more depth. Thank you both for all of the hours and hours that you have spent on the computer and traveling to these various cemeteries to find graves.

[@barryrudolph3080]

I remember seeing a video of four Bhutanese teens in a white Camry get hit by a UP train in Bechtel, Kentucky.

[@sunspots6077]

I'm a very careful person... after getting away with doing a lot of stupid things when I was younger. I have a habit of once determining it is safe to cross a train track I speed up enough to have the momentum to clear the tracks even if the engine quits. My last GF would always say I was not supposed to do that ( conflating in her head with speeding up trying to "beat a train") She just did not get timing and nuance.. I also had a lot of drunks for relatives... and other relatives made excuses.. One drunk relative "went to sleep" on some train tracks and got hit one time.. I listened to the hubbub on the CB without knowing who it was.

[@RussWhite-xq3zn]

The railroad company dont care about lives just money. Thanks Leo and Heather

[@marshadean1321]

My husband has family on the main top they don't clean off and trees have grown up thru the tombstone.

[@JamesChubbyDamron]

Interesting to hear about distant relatives I’m a Damron from Charlottesville Virginia, via Rockfish Nelson County Virginia

[@joanneweislocher8540]

Thank you Keo and Heather🙏my grandfather was killed in his car hit by a train when my mom was 3 years old, about 1923 in southern Missouri 😫 at a very rural track corner with nothing but trees and you couldn’t see a train coming. There was no train lights or cleared trees. 😥😭😖🥺

[@airbubble.]

In the cemetery you can see at least a couple of dozen burial plots on that side of the slope where you pointed, just obvious in the different shades of the grass in rectangular shapes, equal sized, in two rows.

[@montelee8244]

Thank you

[@someonesprincess3]

❤️ 👍🏻 👍🏻

[@MrsJessiemerritt]

Very sad R.I.P. to all. My step dad in Heaven now was engineer for 25 plus years. He was always telling you about train tracks he said don’t get close to train track it reaches farther than you think on both sides, at end of drive way there’s train tracks he said stop roll windows down little listen look both ways before crossing. Him , his dad , and one brother all retired from railroad. Few accidents that happened while they worked on railroad. My step would talk very little about it haunted him he would let you have over train tracks. Other than that he cut up mostly and told jokes. God bless.

[@Beverly-hv2ft]

I had my mind on something eles one day ,and I almost got hit , so very sad. May rip. 😢

[@gearhead2017]

horrible accident,RIP Moore family