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The deadliest U.S. rail disaster of the 19th century--also Ohio's deadliest to date--led to changes in bridge construction code, the replacement of coal and wood stoves with steam heat in coaches, and mandatory federal investigation of all U.S. rail disasters [19] 1877 Pickering Valley wreck, Kimberton, Pennsylvania; 7 killed plus dozens injured.
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Many who survived the crash burned to death in the wreckage. The accident killed approximately 92 of the 160 people aboard. It was the worst rail accident in the U.S. in the 19th century and the worst rail accident in U.S. history until the Great Train Wreck of 1918. It remains the third-deadliest rail accident in U.S. history.
A History of Railroad Accidents, Safety Precautions and Operating Practices. LCCN 78104064. Shepard, W. A. (1857). Full Details of the Railway Disaster of the 12th of March, 1857, at the Desjardin Canal on the Line of the Great Western Railway. W.A. Shepard. Trevena, Arthur (1980). Trains in Trouble: Vol. 1. Redruth: Atlantic Books.
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A Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad (TP&W) train bound for Niagara Falls crossed over a trestle, weakened earlier in the day by a fire, causing it to collapse. In 2007, staff of the McLean County Museum of History wrote that "the Chatsworth Train Wreck probably ranks as the second- or third-deadliest U.S rail accident in the 19th century." [2]
"Europe's history of rail disasters". BBC. October 11, 2006 "World's worst rail disasters". BBC. December 19, 2007 "GenDisasters Train Wrecks 1869–1943". Archived from the original on 2015-04-16. "Interstate Commerce Commission Investigations of Railroad Accidents 1911–1993". U.S. Department of Transportation.
A spur of the railroad, whose name was changed on April 18, 1853, to the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, was formally opened Monday, July 2, 1855, with an excursion from Cohoquinoque station, at Front and Willow Streets in Philadelphia, to Wissahickon (present-day Ambler), an outlying area to the northwest. Farmers could now ship their ...