Wow! Can you imagine the movie that could be done with this story? Use a bit of poetic license and add in a murder, a romance, a lonely child, and a puppy and it has all the components of a great one!
I bet C.J. Shelbly told his kids and grandkids about the time a locomotive landed within feet of his digs.
Read Zola’s La Bete Humaine (The Beast Within) . It’s also a film.
Psychopaths, jealousy, train crashes in 19th century France.