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May 31 – Italy – Voghera train crash; a freight train collided with a passenger train at Voghera railway station, Lombardy, killing 63 and injuring 40. [30] June 3 – United Kingdom – Lincoln rail crash: The Night Scotsman express passenger train derailed at Lincoln due to excessive speed on a curve, killing nine people and injuring 49. [39]
The Canyon Diablo shootout was a gunfight between American lawmen and a pair of bandits that occurred on April 8, 1905, in the present-day ghost town of Canyon Diablo, Arizona. On the night before, two men named William Evans and John Shaw robbed a saloon in Winslow and made off with at least $ 200 in coins.
Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash October 8 – United Kingdom – Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash: Three trains are involved in a crash that kills 112 people and injures 340. A rear-end collision due to a driver passing a signal at danger in fog is immediately followed by another express running into the wreckage.
One of the first railroad wars in Old West history was the Placer County Railroad War in California.In 1864, the Sacramento Valley Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad began competing for the ownership of a road from Ashland to a point just outside Auburn Station, which was in the process of being abandoned by the Sacramento, Placer and Nevada Railroad.
Fallen Southern Pacific Railroad cars in Carrizo Gorge, 2010.. The San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railway traces its origins back to December 14, 1906, when entrepreneur John D. Spreckels announced he would form the San Diego and Arizona (SD&A) Railway and build a railroad to provide San Diego with a direct rail link to the east by connecting with the Southern Pacific (SP) lines in El Centro ...
Patrick Horton, a 59-year-old from Salida, Colorado, was found dead in the Grand Canyon Sunday. NPS Photo/E. Whittaker His body was found by other members of his party on the 10th day of their trip.
On August 23, 1878, the United States Circuit Court for the District of Colorado found in favor of the Santa Fe and its proxy, the Cañon City and San Juan Company, allowing construction of a railroad through the first 20 miles (32 km) of the 50-mile (80 km) canyon, which includes the Royal Gorge. The Rio Grande was given the right to lay track ...
The families of five fallen soldiers are mourning across the country following an MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crash this weekend, affecting families in Arizona, California, New Hampshire ...