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Robert Ralph Young (February 14, 1897 – January 25, 1958) was an American financier and industrialist.He is best known for leading the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway and the New York Central Railroad during and after World War II.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
The 20th Century Limited running on the Boston and Albany Railroad sometime in the early 1900s. Similar to the train involved in the crash. On June 21, 1905, Train No. 26, the 20th Century Limited, was approaching the town of Mentor from the west, running on a mainline owned by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway.
February 27 – United States – Porter, Indiana: Over 37 people were killed when the Canadian on the Michigan Central Railroad and the Interstate Express on the New York Central Railroad crash at a cross track. The Michigan Central train, bound for Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City, overshot a block signal and was derailed by a derailed ...
The 20th Century Limited was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad (NYC) from 1902 to 1967. The train traveled between Grand Central Terminal in New York City and LaSalle Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, along the railroad's "Water Level Route".
A train crash with fatalities occurred shortly after 11:30 p.m. on April 19, 1940, when a first-class westbound Lake Shore Limited operated by the New York Central Railroad, derailed near Little Falls, New York, United States. The accident was later found to have occurred due to excessive speed on the Gulf Curve, the sharpest on the Central's ...
One source says 30 people were killed and 70 injured; [1] another says 17 killed and 120 injured. [2] January 10 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's Southwest Limited from St. Louis to Cleveland, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at Wellington, Ohio, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was ...
January 8 – United States – New York City: A stopped New Haven express train from South Norwalk was rear-ended in the Park Avenue tunnel by a New York Central White Plains local, due to smoke and snow obscuring signals. Seventeen persons were killed and 36 injured, the worst rail accident in New York City history.