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Train wreck

A train wreck or train crash is a type of disaster involving one or more trains. Train wrecks often occur as a result of miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track; or an accident, such as when a train wheel jumps off a track in a derailment; or when a boiler explosion occurs...

Timeline of Events

1853

1.6.1853

President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts.

1907

7.20.1907

A train wreck on the Pere Marquette Railroad near Salem, Michigan, kills 30 and injures 70.

1918

7.9.1918

Great train wreck of 1918: in Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.