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I am looking for pictures and/or drawings of Southern Railway Mailtrain #97. Baldwin built engine #1102 (4-6-0) and the four cars it was pulling on September 27, 1903, before Stillhouse Trestle. It consisted of two postal cars, one express car, and one baggage car. Thanks, Bill Damewood
-- Bill E. Damewood (damewood@infi.net), March 09, 2002
"History of the Wreck of the Old 97" is a soft-cover book privately published by G. Howard Gregory in 1981. I have a copy of this and a second (identical) edition published in 1992. I got it from Mr. Gregory at: 140 Walton Drive, Appomatox VA 24522 and priced (in both 1981 and 1992) at $4.95. It is about 36 pages long and includes text, photos and maps. There is a fair reproduction of a photo of 4-6-0 #1102 taken in 1929 and a painting of the locomotive and 4-car train shortly before the wreck. Picture quality is fair to poor.I don't know if Mr. Gregory is still at the Appomatox address or if he still has copies of his book for sale, but it's worth a letter.
-- tom warne (twar@chevron.com), March 12, 2002.