Nyack railway accident
In the Nyack railway accident on August 30, 1900, escaped freight cars collided with a passenger train standing in Nyack ( Montana ) station . 36 people died.
Starting position
The now defunct station of Nyack was in the Rocky Mountains on the Chicago to Seattle line of the Great Northern Railway . A freight train had left the station in an easterly direction, where the line climbs up to the ridge. A passenger train was traveling in the opposite direction, which stopped in Nyack. It consisted of the locomotive and four passenger cars . At the end of this train, the saloon car of the deputy director of the Great Northern Railway was also attached.
the accident
The last 18 wagons loaded with gravel detached themselves from the freight train and rolled back up the slope over 25 km. In Nyack station they met the end of the passenger train that was about to leave the station. They smashed the saloon car and the passenger car running in front of it, in which 46 railway company workers were sitting.
consequences
33 of the workers died, as did the deputy director of the Great Northern Railway , his accompanying son and his cook. The wooden superstructures of the wagons caught fire. The other travelers managed to free themselves from the rubble.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 . P. 21.
Coordinates: 48 ° 26 '23 " N , 113 ° 48' 20.6" W.