Download or read book The Chatsworth Wreck written by C.C. Burford and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1949 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chatsworth Wreck: a saga of excursion train travel in the American Midwest in the 1880's

Download or read book The Great Chatsworth Train Wreck of 1887 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the train wreck between Chatsworth and Piper City, August 10, 1887 on the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad.

Download or read book The Train That Never Arrived with Updates written by Dale Maley and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatsworth is a small town located in Central Illinois. It is 100 miles south of Chicago and 70 miles east of Peoria. It was founded in 1859, two years after the Peoria & Oquawka Railroad first crossed Central Illinois. This railroad became the Toledo, Peoria, and Warsaw line a few years later.In August of 1887, the railroad began advertising for a special passenger excursion train that would take Central Illinois citizens on a short vacation trip to Niagara Falls. On August 10, 1887, the train with its 625 total passengers began it trip east across Illinois.Just past midnight, the passenger train encountered a burned out wooden bridge just east of Chatsworth. The second locomotive and several wood passenger cars derailed killing approximately 85 passengers and injuring 372 more. It was one of the worst train wrecks of that era.In 1970, Helen Louise Plaster Stoutemyer published her account of the Chatsworth Train Wreck titled The Train That Never Arrived. This book reprints her book and adds a significant amount of new information about the wreck.It is hoped this book helps to inform current Central Illinois residents about the Chatsworth Train Wreck of 1887. The Chatsworth train wreck still ranks as the seventh worst in American railroad history in terms of fatalities.

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Download or read book Train Wreck written by Wesley S. Griswold and published by Stephen Greene Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of 19 historic rail disasters: 1833-1958"--Jacket.

Download or read book Train Wrecks written by Robert Carroll Reed and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides black & white photographs and etchings of just about every imaginable type of train accident including boiler explosions, telescoping, bridge failures, head-on and rear-end collisions, mostly from the last half of the 1800's. The text presents many bits and pieces of U.S. railroad history as well as some contemporary accounts of life on the tracks, providing insight into how the railroads have progressed technologically and the impacts those advances have had on railroad safety.

Download or read book Dedication and Unveiling State Plaque in Commemoration of the Chatsworth Wreck Midnight August 10 11 1887 written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chatsworth written by Ellen V. Fayer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatsworth, a small village in the New Jersey Pinelands, was known as Shamong until 1901. The community traces its beginning to the early 1700s, when settlers mined and forged bog iron to make cannonballs for the American Revolution, and farming was the primary source of income. In the mid-1800s, Chatsworth was a popular stopping point for stagecoach travelers to the Jersey Shore. The arrival of the railroad removed the remoteness of the village and captured the attention of people throughout the country. Prince Mario Ruspoli de Poggio-Suasa, an attach of the Italian embassy in Washington, D.C., built an elegant villa at the lake. Soon after, the exquisite Chatsworth Country Club was built and counted among its membership a sitting vice president of the United States. It was during this period that Chatsworth played a dominant role in the development of the cranberry industry and began attracting hunters and others seeking recreational opportunities in the Pinelands. The cultivated blueberry industry also had its beginnings in Chatsworth in the 1930s.

Download or read book Oversight of the Amtrak Accident in Philadephia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Economics of Railroad Safety written by Ian Savage and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American public has a fascination with railroad wrecks that goes back a long way. One hundred years ago, staged railroad accidents were popular events. At the Iowa State fair in 1896, 89,000 people paid $20 each, at current prices, to see two trains, throttles wide open, collide with each other. "Head-on Joe" Connolly made a business out of "cornfield meets" holding seventy-three events in thirty-six years. Picture books of train wrecks do good business presumably because a train wreck can guarantee a spectacular destruction of property without the messy loss of life associated with aircraft accidents. A "train wreck" has also entered the popular vocabulary in a most unusual way. When political manoeuvering leads to failure to pass the federal budget, and a shutdown is likely of government services, this is widely called a "train wreck. " In business and team sports, bumbling and lack of coordination leading to a spectacular and public failure to perform is also called "causing a train wreck. " A person or organization who is disorganized may be labelled a "train wreck. " It is therefore not surprising that the public perception of the safety of railroads centers on images of twisted metal and burning tank cars, and a general feeling that these events occur quite often. After a series of railroad accidents, such as occurred in the winter of 1996 or the summer of 1997, there are inevitable calls that government "should do something.

Download or read book The North American Review written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

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Download or read book Haunted Jersey Shore written by Charles A. Stansfield and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining look into the haunted history of the New Jersey coastline.

Download or read book Train Wreck written by George Bibel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains are massive—with some weighing 15,000 tons or more. When these metal monsters collide or go off the rails, their destructive power becomes clear. In this book, George Bibel presents riveting tales of trains gone wrong, the detective work of finding out why, and the safety improvements that were born of tragedy. Train Wreck details 17 crashes in which more than 200 people were killed. Readers follow investigators as they sift through the rubble and work with computerized event recorders to figure out what happened. Using a mix of eyewitness accounts and scientific explanations, Bibel draws us into a world of forensics and human drama. Train Wreck is a fascinating exploration of• runaway trains• bearing failures• metal fatigue• crash testing • collision dynamics• bad rails

Download or read book The Story of American Railroads written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly comprehensive history, featuring more than 100 photographs and contemporary prints. Involving struggles against nature, corrupt politicians, and other obstacles, the colorful account abounds in tales of ingenuity and colossal achievement.

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