| Railroad Crossing at Wayne Street Defiance Ohio |
Tales of South Jefferson (Defiance, Ohio) before the viaduct under the CSX Railroad, was built. Martin Duerk tells us of roving cow that wandered on to the right of way and was rolled gently but deadly down the track until the engine and tender rolled over on their side. The tender lying right in front of a citizen's wood house door. So he with a shovel and proceeded to fill the structure with the convenient supply of winter fuel.
Of the presence of mind of a wood hauler, who crossing the track with a bob-sled load of stave bolts one zero winter morning, was suddenly halted as his sled runners froze to the rails. And, sure, enough there was a train coming so the hauler leaped from his sled loosened the doubletree pin just in time to avoid, the rain of stave bolts, that the whizzing train scattered for blocks.
And of the the doctor who allowed a small boy to hold his horse. Said small boy, becoming interested in a snowball battle, neglected his task and the horse drew nearer the railroad crossing. Along came a local not going very fast, but the confusion rattled the doctor's steed who got too close and got a severe slam when he thrust his head in between the rear car and the caboose.
Wild with fright the horse ran away in pursuit of the fleeing train and came near to catching it. But a trestle intervened and down went the horse with all four legs through the trestle.
So section crew came with blocking material and slowly the horse was elevated to an upright position as the mystified crew of a waiting passenger train wondered what was going on. He was led off the right-of-way and in two weeks was pulling the doctor's rig again, none the worse from perhaps as strange an adventure as ever befell a horse in Defiance.
Of the presence of mind of a wood hauler, who crossing the track with a bob-sled load of stave bolts one zero winter morning, was suddenly halted as his sled runners froze to the rails. And, sure, enough there was a train coming so the hauler leaped from his sled loosened the doubletree pin just in time to avoid, the rain of stave bolts, that the whizzing train scattered for blocks.
And of the the doctor who allowed a small boy to hold his horse. Said small boy, becoming interested in a snowball battle, neglected his task and the horse drew nearer the railroad crossing. Along came a local not going very fast, but the confusion rattled the doctor's steed who got too close and got a severe slam when he thrust his head in between the rear car and the caboose.
Wild with fright the horse ran away in pursuit of the fleeing train and came near to catching it. But a trestle intervened and down went the horse with all four legs through the trestle.
So section crew came with blocking material and slowly the horse was elevated to an upright position as the mystified crew of a waiting passenger train wondered what was going on. He was led off the right-of-way and in two weeks was pulling the doctor's rig again, none the worse from perhaps as strange an adventure as ever befell a horse in Defiance.
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