Trailer for "Dutchman's Curve".
Coming July 2008.

"Dutchman's Curve"......
the sorrowful tale of
the worst accident in
American railroad history,
told by descendents of
witnesses and victims
and by railroad historians.

Two passenger trains on the historic
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Railway collided in a corn field a few
miles west of Nashville Tennessee
on July 9, 1918. Nearly one hundred
passengers and at least thirty
NC& St.L employees lost their
lives at Dutchman's Curve.

Photographs documenting the hours
following the accident,
taken by NC&St.L
photographer Henry Hill Sr. are
featured in this film.

"Dutchman's Curve" includes the
recollections of Elizabeth Jacobs.
She was twelve years old in 1918.
She was awakened on the morning
of July 9th by the loud
bang made by the collision.

The documentary, "Dutchman's Curve, Nashville's Story" will premier in Nashville Tennessee July 9, 2008.