8092°W / 42.0089; -71.8092 The Great East Thompson Train Wreck was a large rail disaster which occurred in East Thompson, Connecticut, on December 4, 1891...
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village, known as Maanexit. Thompson was the site of the Great East Thompson Train Wreck in 1891, one of the worst train wrecks in American history and the...
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Bostian's Bridge popular with paranormal activists 1891 Great East Thompson Train Wreck, East Thompson, Connecticut; 2 killed plus hundreds injured. First...
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000th new steam locomotive. December 4 – Great East Thompson Train Wreck: Four trains collide in East Thompson, Connecticut. It is one of the most extensive...
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Jennifer. "Derailed Train's Load Said Above Crew's Figures." Los Angeles Times. May 17, 1989, A3. "The Great San Bernardino Train Wreck" by Hatch & Judy...
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is unknown; the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum approximates 6,000 ships and 30,000 lives lost, while historian and mariner Mark Thompson has estimated that...
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States – Great East Thompson Train Wreck; East Thompson, Connecticut: Four trains collided on the New York and New England Railroad. Two freight trains collided...
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hymn-writer Philip Bliss in 1876 train wreck in Ohio "Anniversary Blue Yodel" see "Blue Yodel No. 7" "Another Journey by Train" (Simon Gallup, Matthieu Hartley...
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86 people died and over 100 were injured, making it one of the worst train wrecks in United States history. On August 4, 1942 a fire of unclear origins...
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: 131 A Southbridge Branch freight was one of four trains involved in the Great East Thompson Train Wreck on December 4, 1891. The New England Railroad, successor...
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SS Daniel J. Morrell (category Great Lakes freighters)
Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452952161. Thompson, Mark L. (1991). Steamboats & sailors of the Great Lakes (Hardcover). Great Lakes Books Series. Detroit, Michigan:...
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Retrieved 9 November 2008. Kalbfleisch, John (21 March 1992). "A tale of two train wrecks; One engineer was hailed a hero, another was jailed". The Montreal Gazette...
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Montana Rail Link (section 1989 Helena train wreck)
with BNSF. In the Helena train wreck of February 2, 1989, 48 decoupled rail cars rolled into Helena, hit a parked work train, caught fire and exploded...
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the Great Lakes. It will be the main platform for research on the Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site. The David Thompson Astronomical...
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2013. Retrieved March 28, 2013. Dan_nehs (March 28, 2021). "The Worst Train Wreck in New Hampshire History - The 1907 Canaan Disaster". New England Historical...
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Danielle; Italiano, Laura (September 19, 2017). "This horrific, deadly train wreck sparked the creation of the MTA". New York Post. Retrieved May 3, 2020...
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Bruce Reynolds to give him £3,000 (a fraction of the proceeds of the Great Train Robbery) for his bet, Pyle's first and last attempt at a big win on a...
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Canadian National Railway (section Passenger trains)
injuring 71. The wreck was caused due to multiple factors caused by CN. In December 1999 the Ultratrain, a petroleum products unit train linking the Levis...
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Uncle Dave Macon (redirect from Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train)
between Woodbury and Murfreesboro for his shipping company. "Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train", recorded in 1930, served as political commentary on a financial...
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SS Emperor (category Wreck diving sites in the United States)
Emperor's wreck is the most recent, and second largest shipwreck of Isle Royale, surpassed only by the freighter Chester A. Congdon, which also wrecked on Canoe...
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Utah's Worst Train Wreck". Standard-Examiner. Archived from the original on June 17, 2019. Retrieved June 17, 2019. "7 Dead in "Owl" Wreck". The Bakersfield...
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having been dedicated at the New York World's Fair. Future runs of the train began their trips at New York Penn Station. Between 1946 and 1952, the station...
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best-known disasters in the history of Great Lakes shipping. Gordon Lightfoot made it the subject of his 1976 hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". The...
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the testimony of modern divers suggest all its magazines exploded. The wreck is now a debris field. At 16:25 HMS Queen Mary was cut in two by detonation...
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212. Safire 2004, p. 146. Churchill 1949, p. 115. Thompson 2011, p. 9. Thompson 2011, p. 7. Thompson 2011, p. 305. Jackson 2003, p. 33. Roth 2010, p. 6...
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2022–present United Kingdom railway strikes (redirect from 2022 UK train strike)
Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Greater Anglia, Great Western Railway, London North Eastern Railway, Northern Trains, Southeastern, South...
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Great Northern Hotel with its large balconies which was completed in 1901 are worth a visit as well. The former Main Train Station opposite the Great...
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flap. ISBN 978-0-425-20404-7. 039914787X. Jonathan Thompson (January 23, 2005). "Dating of wreck's timbers puts wind in sails of the 'Mary Celeste' mystery"...
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at 2:10 p.m. Nearby vessels were only able to rescue 19 passengers. The wreck was secured by fabled sport fisherman Frank Mundus and towed into Lake Montauk...
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it is served by the D train at all times. Due to changes in the street grid of the neighborhood, the station has exits to East 205th Street and Perry...
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