Key Figures in Railroad History

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Richard B. Bell

Smyrna Depot Clerk — Western & Atlantic Railroad

Richard B. Bell, son of Dr. W.R. Bell of Atlanta, died Feb. 27, 1874, at his father’s home on Luckie Street after an illness with consumption.

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Sanford Luilem Bell

Conductor — Western & Atlantic Railroad

Sanford L. Bell joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad as a conductor in 1852.

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J. H. Bishop

Transfer Clerk — Western & Atlantic Railroad

J.H. Bishop joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1873.

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John Isaac Black

Engineer — Louisville & Nashville Railroad

John Black of Paris, Tennessee, was the engineer 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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