Lost at Thaxton: The Dramatic True Story of Virginia's Forgotten Train Wreck

A record storm triggers a deadly train wreck. As 18 perish in the burning debris, survivors fight for life in this true story of the 1889 disaster.

A storm like no one had ever seen caused tiny Wolf Creek in Thaxton, Virginia, to rage in the darkness of night. An earthen fill that carried the railroad over the creek could not withstand the power of the rising water, and Norfolk & Western passenger train Number Two plummeted into a hole in the earth.

There in the valley beneath the shadow of t...