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  2. List of rail accidents (1880–1889) - Wikipedia

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    February 5 – United States – 1887 Hartford Railroad Disaster: On the Vermont Central Railroad, in very cold weather, a rail broke under the Montreal Express train as it approached the 650-foot (200-metre) bridge over the White River. The derailed car pulled four others off the bridge and they crashed to the ground upside-down 42 ft (13 m ...

  3. List of American railroad accidents - Wikipedia

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    May have a higher number of missing victims than any other U.S. rail disaster to date [15] [16] [17] 1871 Great Revere train wreck , Revere, Massachusetts; ~30 killed. Victims' and families' crippling lawsuits against the company at fault—the Eastern Railroad—led to its forced merger with arch rival, the Boston & Maine [ 18 ]

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  5. Lists of rail accidents - Wikipedia

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  6. Category:19th-century railway accidents - Wikipedia

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    List of rail accidents (1880–1889) List of rail accidents (before 1880) List of rail accidents (1890–1899)

  7. 1887 Hartford Railroad Disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Vermont Central Railroad operated the Montreal Express, which consisted of one baggage and express car combined, one mail and smoker car combined, two ordinary passenger cars, and two Pullman sleeping cars—the "Pilgrim" and the "St. Albans.” [2] The train was estimated to be carrying between 85 and 90 passengers on the night of the ...

  8. List of rail accidents (before 1880) - Wikipedia

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    A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices. LCCN 78104064. Shepard, W. A. (1857). Full Details of the Railway Disaster of the 12th of March, 1857, at the Desjardin Canal on the Line of the Great Western Railway. W.A. Shepard. Trevena, Arthur (1980). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 1. Redruth: Atlantic Books. ISBN 0 ...

  9. Ashtabula River railroad disaster - Wikipedia

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    Many who survived the crash burned to death in the wreckage. The accident killed approximately 92 of the 160 people aboard. It was the worst rail accident in the U.S. in the 19th century and the worst rail accident in U.S. history until the Great Train Wreck of 1918. It remains the third-deadliest rail accident in U.S. history.