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John Cain
Conductor
Biography
John Cain, a native of Clarksville, Tennessee, was appointed conductor on the Memphis, Clarksville & Louisville Railroad after its completion.
After the Civil War, Cain went to work on the Louisville & Nashville and the Memphis & Tennessee railroads. He moved to Arkansas in the late 1870s.
He was killed during a March 1883 train robbery on the Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad, where he worked as a conductor.
J. J. Callahan
Machinist
Biography
J.J. Callahan joined the Western and Atlantic Railroad circa 1869.
Clarence Grinter Carney
Conductor
Marion Eulan Carter
Fireman
Biography
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.