1953 New york Central Wreck near Conneaut,Ohio

[savoy]

Has their been any articles published on this wreck ? I have read the ICC report but photos & more information seem to be hard to find.

[FlyingCrow]

It's all over the web.  March 27,1953.   Just type 'Conneaut, Ohio 1953 wreck' into Google and dozens of links pop up.

[RRCharlie]

My Father worked for the Maintenance of Way Department for the NYC for 44 plus years. He came home with stories about how bad things were at the site. At least three trains were involved. A load of pipe came loose from one of the freight cars just as a crack NYC passenger train came barreling past and another train joined in before any one away from the accident knew it had happened. Dad told of finding bodies and even pieces of bodies. The wreck was at the place the railroad called stateline curve between Pennsylvania and Ohio. The NYC was a four track speedway back then. Passenger trains on the middle two tracks and freigh on the outer two, usually, but sometimes on the middle two as well.

[NP Eddie]

Check with your library or  book store for a book "Train Wrecks ..." by Robert Reed. The call number is 385REE.

This is an older book and has about three or four pictures of this messy wreck. I remember the end of a stainless steel car sticking up in the air with another railcar under it.

 

Ed Burns of Anoka, MN