The Train Accident Of 1950 in Rowan County.
I was searching for a story about a train wreck in Effingham County Georgia. And this was also talked about. I occasionally Train Spot. I love trains. The Train Accident Of 1950 in Rowan County. Early on the morning of July 13, 1950, Elbert W. Kluttz, a freight train conductor for Southern had finished a run in Greenville, S.C. Rather than wait on the train he normally would have taken back home to Rowan County, Kluttz hopped on Engine 585, the lead of two locomotives that were pulling nine cars of rock. It was heading for Albemarle, which would require branching off onto the Yadkin line in Rowan County. Kluttz planned to jump off during a stop in Rockwell. In effect, Kluttz was hitching a ride and enjoying the conversation with Engine 585’s four-man crew. His fellow railroaders knew Kluttz by the nickname “Ebb.” No one back home knew Ebb Kluttz would be getting back so early. Ray Kluttz worked that morning at the family business, Kluttz Music and Furniture Co., which his musically i