Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/July 9

Aftermath of the 1918 accident in Nashville

1889 – The Housatonic Railroad, a predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad.
1905 – The Scott Special, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway passenger train chartered by "Death Valley Scotty" for $5,500, departs Los Angeles, California, on its record breaking run to Chicago, Illinois, in just under 45 hours.^[1]^[2]
1918 – Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway trains collide head-on. 101 people are killed, and 171 are injured, making the Great train wreck of 1918 (pictured) the deadliest train accident in United States history.
1926 – The first use of a radiotelephone on a train occurs on a train of the New York Central Railroad.

References[edit]

^ John R. Signor (ed.). "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. First Quarter 2006. Vol. 12, no. 1. pp. 17–29. (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
^ Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.