The wreck of Old 97 at Stillhouse Trestle near Danville, Virginia, 1903.

Then he turned around and said to his black greasy fireman:
shovel on a little more coal;
And when we cross that White Oak Mountain
watch old 97 roll.

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He was goin’ down the grade makin’ 90 miles an hour,
When his whistle broke into a scream.
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle,
A scalded to death by the steam.

– Wreck of the Old 97, G. B. Grayson and Henry Whitter.