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The 1958 Sterlington railroad disaster was a head-on collision by two Erie Railroad trains on August 11, 1958 at 6:47 AM killing 5 people and injuring 22 to 36 (sources are conflicting). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The collision occurred when the operator in the signal tower at Suffern failed to hold the westbound train No. 53 at Suffern for the eastbound No ...
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. Some 65 prisoners, guards, and train crew were killed.
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July 18 - United States - An Erie Railroad train that stopped for water had a rear collision with another train on a curve at Greenwood Lake, New York, killing sixteen and injuring sixty. [ 49 ] August 7 – United States – Eden Train Wreck , near Eden Station north of Pueblo, Colorado .
The accident occurred on the mainline [1] of the Erie Division at a point 2.4 miles (3.9 km) east of Conneaut and 1,861 feet (567 m) from the Ohio-Pennsylvania state line. This was on the famous Water Level Route , a four-track mainline where fast passenger trains from the Midwest ran on an almost gradeless route to New York. [ 2 ]
The accident occurred as the signalman at Frankford Junction was telephoning the next tower to stop the train. September 7 – United States – The locomotive boiler on an Erie Railroad passenger train explodes at Port Jervis, New York. As nobody was killed, not even the engine crew, this might not be considered notable except that it happened ...
Erie Railroad prospered throughout the mid-1950s, but their profits were simultaneously on a decline. The company's 1957 income was half of that of 1956; by 1958 and 1959, Erie Railroad posted large deficits. The Erie's financial losses resulted in them entering negotiations to merge with the nearby Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
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