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ALERT THE PRESS The whistle of Jim Jackson will being the starting sound of the 5k and 10k race at tomorrow’s Threefoot Festival What an honor it is to sound... the whistle of the late Engineer and Meridian Native, Jim Jackson. It was June 14th, 1922 when NO&NE locomotive #6977 was at the head of Train 42 when it was purposely derailed killing Mr. Jim Jackson. The following poem was written in his honor: On June 14th and Twenty-One At the gentle speed it had always run A train widely known as "42" Always here when it was due. Was purposely derailed on Richburg Hill By unknown persons with evil will As the engine turned over the coaches crashed And out of the doors the passengers dashed. Out of the woods and houses nearby To bring aid to the people they thought would die The engineer scalded and the fireman killed The steam boiler bursted which had just been filled. The criminals escaped leaving one slight clue Why they had wrecked the train nobody knew. They left a claw bar lying nearby And also their victims alone to die. The engineer died half past four, And his beautiful quill we hear no more. His famous engine, the '77' Has sent four men, we hope, to heaven. The fowl on land and up in the sky Will never again hear him dot the eye In the years that have past in which he won his fame As a quill-puller from Meridian, Jim Jackson's his name. -Mr. Harold H. Hargin So if you want to hear the sound of Mr. Jim Jackson - be downtown tomorrow morning at the start of the Threefoot Festival 5k & 10k race at 8:00am at City Hall lawn. A MASSIVE thank you to our friends at Truckers' Supply Company Inc. for helping us get set up with the proper fittings and air compressor to sound this piece of history again! WTOK-TV The Meridian Star 97OKK WABO AM/FM #railroad #history #keeptheirstoriesalive

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