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Westbrook Train Wreck (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Harry Angstrom said:
    was it one of these crashes? (although Westbrook is on the photo, can't see any train wreck news out of Westbrook, so far, just these items). ------------------------------------------------------------- 12 DIE IN WRECK, 47 INJURED, ON BOSTON FLIER; The New Haven's Federal Express Crashes Down an Embankment at Bridgeport. Special to The New York Times. July 12, 1911, Wednesday Page 1, 3579 words BRIDGEFORT, Conn., July 11. -- The Federal Express, on the New York, New Haven Hartford Railroad, the train to which President Taft's private car is invariably attached when he goes to New England, running from Washington to Boston, plunged down an eighteen-foot embankment one mile and a half west of the Bridgeport station at 3:35 o'clock this morning, killing twelve persons outright and injuring forty-seven others, several of whom are expected to die. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F06E4D61431E233A... ---------------------------------- HOLD TRAINMEN FOR NEW HAVEN WRECK; Coroner Lodges Manslaughter Charge Against Engineer, Conductor, and Flagman. September 16, 1913, Tuesday Page 5, 1087 words NEW HAVEN, Sept. 15. -- August B. Miller engineer of the White Mountain Express, which crashed into the Bar Harbor Express at North Haven, on the New Haven Road, on Sept. 2, and Bruce G. Adams, conductor, and Charles J. Murray, flagman, of the Bar Harbor Express, are held responsible for the fatal wreck by Coroner Mix, who handed down his finding to-day. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D03E2D8123FE633A...
  • It's Pronounced Awesome said:
    By description it would be the July 11 Bridgeport byline. North Haven is on a different line from Westport (which is geographically closer to Bridgeport on the same NYNH&H line).
  • Jonboy270 said:
    This accident appears to be on a steel supported wood bridge rather than down an embankment.

Southern Pacific, Lander, Calif. Head-on collision, Sept. 9, 1892

from SMU Libraries Digital Collections

  • jamica1 said:
    Any injuries/deaths?
  • pleasant yarn said:
    A railroad crash and not a small one, could be a derailment. However the Sant Fe reefer with additional center ice hatches, this is a rarely seen car! And a really good idea for scratchbuilding a new model. See also my website us-modelsof1900.de . Sorry, it's a head end collision.
  • garagehero2 said:
    One of the trains was made up of Santa Fe refrigerator cars. More photos can be seen on page 66 of Robert C. Reed’s, TRAIN WRECKS, A Pictorial History of Accidents on The Main Line.

Barnes Circus train wreck

from Florida Memory

  • countingthecars said:
    I believe this is from July 1930.