On Nov. 1, 1918, 107 years ago today, a speeding Brooklyn Rapid Transit train derailed on a sharp curve beneath Willink Plaza in Flatbush, killing roughly 100 people.
John T. Read opened the popular Read House hotel in 1872 on the site of the former Crutchfield House next to Chattanooga’s Union Depot in the years after the Civil War.
Two centuries ago, the Stockton & Darlington Railway ushered in a new era on Sept. 27, 1825, when Locomotion No. 1 pulled coal wagons and passenger coaches from Shildon to Stockton via Darlington.
On a warm June night in 1918, the sleepy community of Ivanhoe, Indiana, was the backdrop of one of the deadliest railroad disasters in the county’s history: The Hammond circus train wreck.