Timeline
2 Happenings
Aug. 6, 1860
First Train Crosses the Cumberland River Bridge
The locomotive W.B. Munford became the first train to cross the new Cumberland River railroad bridge at Clarksville, Tennessee.
July 28, 1869
Budds Creek Disaster
The Louisville-bound No. 2 express train on the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad plunged through the Budds Creek bridge near Palmyra, Tennessee, after the span gave way beneath the train. The locomotive…