Tags: Locomotive.
The Fast Mail was a Southern Railway steam train that on the September 27 1903 derailed at Stillhouse Trestle in Danville Virginia. The train consisted of two postal cars one express car and one baggage car. The accident inspired the famous railroad ballad – Wreck of the Old 97. As mentioned in the song the old 97’s locomotive (Southern Railway #1102) did make it to Spencer North Carolina.
