Tag: train
Quick-Thinking Engineer Prevents Passenger Train Disaster
For a few terrifying moments on the Lake Shore tracks, it looked as if a passenger train was about to plunge into disaster. The westbound…
Teen Locked in Freight Car by Jokers Found Frozen and Starving
What began as a cruel joke nearly cost a teenage boy his life. Seventeen-year-old James Fry was locked inside a freight car at Peru, Indiana,…
4-Year-Old Boy Hopped a Freight Train and Rode Into North Dakota
When a four-year-old boy vanished from his home in Lemmon, South Dakota, back in 1914, his widowed mother searched for him until nightfall. What she…
7 Halloween Merrymakers Killed When Train Smashed Into Truck in New Jersey
Halloween night should have ended with laughter, music, and masqueraders returning home with stories to tell. Instead, for a truckload of Philadelphians traveling through southern…
Man Robbed and Left on Rails Near Excelsior Springs
In 1920, George Underwood thought he was only waiting for a train at the Wabash Station in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. He had been to Kansas…
Bandits Rob Katy Express Near Eufaula
South of Eufaula, a southbound Missouri, Kansas & Texas train came upon a burning trestle near Wirth and was forced to halt before the flames…
Chicago Foreman Struck by Train Becomes Human Cannonball
Railroad work was dangerous in the best of weather, but winter made the job even more treacherous. Snow had to be cleared from the tracks…
22 Charred Bodies Taken From Passenger Train
The people of Sandford, Indiana, felt the blast before they understood what had happened. One moment, an accommodation passenger train was slowing along the Big…
Veteran Brakeman Mangled While Coupling Cars
Railroad work in the early 1900s was dangerous, and few jobs were more perilous than coupling cars in a busy yard. One wrong step, one…
Lawrenceburg Man Uncouples Express Train to Reach His Sweetheart
Some love stories involve stolen glances, secret letters, or moonlit promises. This one involved an express train, a coupling pin, and a very bad decision….
