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Abraham Lincoln's funeral train.. A funeral train carries a coffin or coffins (caskets) to a place of interment by railway.Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders, national heroes, or government officials, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes the chief means of transporting coffins and mourners to graveyards.
Around 4:00am on August 23, 1987, the bodies of 16-year-old Don Henry and 17-year-old Kevin Ives were hit by a freight train in the town of Alexander, Arkansas, United States, as they were lying on the tracks. The locomotive engineer engaged the brakes while blowing the horn, but the train could not stop in time and rolled over the bodies.
Ogle Winston Link [1] (December 16, 1914 – January 30, 2001), known commonly as O. Winston Link, was an American photographer, best known for his black-and-white photography and sound recordings of the last days of steam locomotive railroading on the Norfolk and Western in the United States in the late 1950s.
The railroad sent a special relief train with doctors and nurses. By late night all injured and most bodies had been recovered. All three mainline tracks were blocked by wreckage. It was 27 hours before trains started to slowly move through the crash site and three days before all wreckage was cleared. [7]
Led Pennsylvania's Supreme Court to formulate a rule that when a railroad accepts money from passengers, an implied contract of care upon the part of the company arises; thus negligence is presumed on the part of the railroad if a passenger is injured [20] 1878 Tariffville train crash, Tariffville, Connecticut; 13 killed plus 70+ injured.
March 4 – Brazil – Anchieta rail disaster near Rio de Janeiro kills 119 people when a high-speed electric freight train collides with a derailed passenger train. April 21 – United Kingdom – A Thames-Clyde Express passenger train is derailed at Blea Moor, Lancashire due to a faulty locomotive causing points to open under the train.
September 5 – United States – Granite, Colorado – Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad's Scenic Limited running southeast, exceeds the rated speed for the track and crashes into the Arkansas River, resulting in 30 deaths and 54 injuries. The locomotive, tender, and six cars plunged into the river.
The Shohola train wreck occurred on July 15, 1864, during the American Civil War on the broad gauge Erie Railroad 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Shohola, Pennsylvania.A train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train.