Re: Apache Railroad (Arizona)

Number 300 was the engine in the wreck in 1947 between Snowflake and Taylor. Fuzzy Money probably remembers Lou Calhoon Reeds releaf Apache Engineer. Lou was a great guy
and the best mountain railroad steam locomotive engineer I have ever known. The black and white photograph of the wreck which was in "Reids" book Train Wrecks shows the very
number 300 much later and converted to oil here. It also shows A very young Reed Hatch , Marvin Hatch on a bicycle and Lou's wife talking to Reed. Reed Hatch whos back is facing the
Camera. It says in many captions that both crew members were killed and that a broken tender journal caused the wreck but both stories are false. It was a wash out on a "shoo fly"
that caused the wreck and Lou although badly burned lived to tell about it. I got the real story from Mrs. Edy Hatch , Reeds wife.

Arizona Ranger