Dual mode locomotive operating under electric power crosses Parkers Creek under vivid blue skies.
This is the site of an 1882 train crash where several cars of the NY&LB's Lightning Express derailed and plunged off a trestle into these shallow waters of Parkers Creek, a branch of the Shrewsbury River. Ex-president Ulysses S. Grant was one of the passengers on the train, but was not injured in the crash. Grant would live just 3 more years before dying of throat cancer, but not before completing his personal memoirs, which have become highly acclaimed.
