Trains Unlimited: Great Train Disasters

Early causes of train accidents. Accidents covered: Andover, MA., Jan. 6, 1853, Boston and Maine, broke a wheel. Franklin Pierce in route to inauguration reported as one of three fatalities. It was his 12 year old son. The Pennsylvania immigrant train Norwalk, CT. N.Y.N.H. & H. went through open drawbridge. Oliver Wendell Holmes erroneously reported dead, but 30 other doctors from an A.M.A. convention in N.Y.C. were among the 43 who perished. 1857 Camp Hill, Pa.