The credits indicate the train wreck occurs in Dillsboro North Carolina. That is is the general area of Asheville North Carolina but still quite a distance on the map. In between Dillsboro and Asheville is Waynesville. I have driven through Dillsboro before several times and there is also the filming scenes on the Blue Ridge Parkway which I have been to many times, especially in 1995 and 1997, so those must be artificial or converted memories. I was camping up around Boone North Carolina several times during the autumn and winter times which was 1995 and maybe as well as 1996.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is several miles to the north of Dillsboro but it runs just to the south of the outskirts of Asheville.
The actual location of the dam doesn't seem to be anywhere near the Blue Ridge Parkway which I have always thought was the filming location of the scenes leading up to the scene at the dam.
That building in downtown Asheville North Carolina must be the location where Deputy US Marshal was seriously injured during his fatal gunfight with the fugitive from US federal justice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebulon_Baird_Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance
Zebulon Baird Vance (May 13, 1830 – April 14, 1894) was a Confederate military officer in the American Civil War, the 37th and 43rd Governor of North Carolina, and U.S. Senator. A prodigious writer, Vance became one of the most influential Southern leaders of the Civil War and postbellum periods.
Quotes
About Vance
"He was the Mount Mitchell of all our great men, and in the affections and love of the people, he towered above them all. As ages to come will not be able to mar the grandeur and greatness of Mount Mitchell, so they will not be able to efface from the hearts and minds of the people the name of their beloved Vance."
-- T. J. Jarvis, Governor from 1879 to 1885
There are several monuments dedicated to Vance:
An obelisk dedicated to Vance in Pack Square, Asheville
