Ohio Train Disasters
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Railroads, History, Science & Nature, Nature, Environment, Natural Disasters, Art & Architecture, Photography, Pictorials
| Author: | Jane Ann Turzillo | ISBN: | 9781625847423 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. | Publication: | November 11, 2014 |
| Imprint: | The History Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jane Ann Turzillo |
| ISBN: | 9781625847423 |
| Publisher: | Arcadia Publishing Inc. |
| Publication: | November 11, 2014 |
| Imprint: | The History Press |
| Language: | English |
In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who faced death and destruction on Ohio's rails.
In nearly a century of heavy rail travel in Ohio, a dozen train accidents stand out as the most horrific. In the bitter cold, just after Christmas 1876, eleven cars plunged seventy-five feet into the frigid water below. The stoves burst into flames, burning to death all who were not killed by the fall. Fires cut short the lives of forty-three people in the head-on Doodlebug collision in Cuyahoga Falls in 1940 and eleven people in a train wreck near Dresden in 1912. Author Jane Ann Turzillo unearths these red-hot stories of ill-fated passengers, heroic trainmen and the wrecking crews who faced death and destruction on Ohio's rails.
