26, 1876, involving a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway train, was considered by many as the worst rail accident in U.S. The Ashtabula River railroad disaster of Dec. In excess of 40 people died in that crash of a passenger self-propelled rail car and a freight train. The name of the latter event appears lighter in tone than the trauma that resulted from the rail car head-on collision more than 80 years ago. Media outlets call these and other recent accidents a "spate of catastrophic train derailments." Such an assessment might assume deadly railroad incidents are new or rare.Įven in Ohio, a search for significant train wrecks at online sources such as "Ohio Memory" - a collaborative program of the Ohio History Connection and the State Library of Ohio - turns up a number of notable railroad incidents, including the Ashtabula River train disaster of 1876, the Sunbury train bridge collapse of 1878, the Kipton train wreck west of Cleveland in 1891, the Wayne County train collision near Shreve in 1892, and the July 4 head-on crash of trains near Middletown in 1910.Īnd, what list of derailments, collisions and crashes could be complete without a reference to the "Doodlebug Disaster" at Cuyahoga Falls in Summit County in 1940. A train derailment turns into a toxic burn that causes health risks to residents of East Palestine.Ī coal train leaves railroad tracks in Nebraska near a small town on the same stretch of tracks that has been the scene of four similar incidents in the last 10 months.
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