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At 7:07 a.m. on the day of the accident, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway ("NC&StL") train No. 4 departed Union Station in Nashville, bound for Memphis. The train, pulled by locomotive No. 282, a G8a class 4-6-0 ten-wheeler built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1905, consisted of two mail and baggage cars and six wooden coaches.
To date, it is the deadliest train wreck in both Amtrak's history and Alabama's railway history. It is also the worst rail disaster in the United States since the 1958 Newark Bay rail accident , in which 48 people died.
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The train derailed due to excessive speed on a curve and collided with an MBTA Commuter Rail train at Back Bay station. RAR-92-01: July 31, 1991 Silver Star: Lugoff, South Carolina: Derailment 8 77 The train derailed due to a set of switch points moving under the train. RAR-93-02: April 29, 1992 Colonial: Newport News, Virginia: Grade crossing 1 54
On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85 passengers. It remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S. derailment since 1918 and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster in the U.S. history. [1]
Many who survived the crash burned to death in the wreckage. The accident killed approximately 92 of the 160 people aboard. It was the worst rail accident in the U.S. in the 19th century and the worst rail accident in U.S. history until the Great Train Wreck of 1918. However, it remains the Third-Deadliest rail accident in U.S. history.