William 1 posted:When I was in grade school we took a family trip to the east coast and one stop was at Harpers Ferry. I think it was 5 of us 7 siblings and our parents in a station wagon. My brothers and I walked halfway across that bridge on the ties as a dare, expecting a train to burst through the tunnel at any moment forcing us to jump off and into the river below. I swear I broke the Guinness record for rock skipping at the confluence of the two rivers. We had the book with us. I skipped it 21 times, the record was 16. Alas, I never did get credit for that, but I remember it well.
As additional information, there are two bridges there at Harpers Ferry, first and foremost is the double track B&O main line, second is the VERY old, single track, Civil War era bridge form the Shenendoaha (sp) branch, involved in this derailment. The freight train was obviously coming off the branch line, heading east for Brunswick, MD.
