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05/17/03 20:51 |
Chief Jim
(soundman1up) |
> Hello all: There was
a train wreck in the Machias area > in 1961; does anyone know of where in
this area the > wreck was at, and how long this delayed rail traffic? >
Thanks, Mike Mills > > Hi Mike, Well, I looked in my ICC files,
but I only go up to 1955 on the NP.
Actually, I think that there was more information available, but they
have since taken the site down, or I
haven't been able to get it to work for quite some time. This site
<http://specialcollections.tasc.dot.gov/scripts/ > was a searchable collection of the ICC investigations
from around 1911 to 1966 of not only
the NP, but all American railroads where there had been a serious enough accident (I think one of the
criteria was a death or serious injury of
either a passenger or a railroad employee) that would cause the Feds
to investigate the incident. It was a
fantastic information resource (often
including field drawings of the accident scene) and a complete
textual accounting of the
investigation. Anyone know if this material is currently available from another addy? I drained a
couple of printer cartridges printing
out a couple loose leaf binders of this stuff, but there was considerable more that I would have liked
to have copied. Machias WA
Compiler C Frissell |
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05/18/03 19:15 |
John Phillips |
Asked Rick Leach about
this and he drew a blank. If Rick doesn't
remember, and Jim Fredrickson doesn't have a file on it, you can safely presume it does not exist... Machias WA Compiler C Frissell |
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05/25/03 12:43 |
Jim Fredrickson |
Our dispatchers office
calendar for 1961 shows Number 676 (Sumas to Auburn time freight) derailed 14
cars at Machias on November 26.
Machias WA Compiler C Frissell |