Key Figures in Railroad History

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Thomas Campia

Fireman — Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad

Thomas Campia was a fireman for the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad and was killed in the Red River trestle boiler explosion near Clarksville on Feb. 10, 1870.

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Frank Cannon

Engineer — Western & Atlantic Railroad

Frank Cannon was a locomotive engineer on the Western & Atlantic Railroad during the Civil War.

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Clarence Grinter Carney

Conductor — Clarksville Railway & Light Company

Clarence G. Carney began his working life with the Clarksville Street Railway before becoming a longtime automobile dealer.

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Marion Eulan Carter

Fireman — Louisville & Nashville Railroad

M.E. “Red” Carter of Mansfield, Tennessee, was the fireman on a Louisville and Nashville Railroad train that plunged from an open drawbridge in Clarksville, Tennessee, into the Cumberland River 50 feet below on June 13, 1947.

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