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The Michigan train wreck was the worst rail disaster in both North Dakota and Great Northern Railway history. [2] It happened on August 9, 1945, at Michigan, North Dakota , and involved Great Northern's premier train, the Empire Builder .
1890 Quincy train wreck, Quincy, Massachusetts; 23 killed plus 29 injured [33] 1891 Great Kipton Train Wreck, Kipton, Ohio; 9 killed. Led to the adoption of stringent quality-control standards for railroad chronometers [34] [35] 1891 Bostian's Bridge train disaster, Statesville, North Carolina; 25-30 killed plus 25-30 injured.
A total of 200 people were killed and 250 were seriously injured. The accident is the worst train accident in Indonesia. [61] December 27 – Slovakia – Stará Kremnička derailment, A train carrying German troops to the front derails near Stará Kremnička because of defective brakes. Derailment at high speed and subsequent fire and ...
April 12 – United States – A head-end collision of a work train and a through freight train occurred near Pineville, Kentucky killing two. [9] [10]May 26 - United States - “Electric cars racing for a switch while running in opposite directions, at the rate of 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), cost five lives in the afternoon by a terrific collision, in which over forty prominent people were ...
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The crash happened Thursday evening near New Buffalo in Michigan's southwestern corner, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) east of Chicago. Chicago-bound Amtrak train derails after hitting empty ...
Train wreck; Tram accident; Train-pedestrian fatalities This page was last edited on 26 July 2024, at 20:09 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...