Train Crash Remote

July 9, 1918: Nashville: 101 killed in a two-train collision
Aug. 7, 1904: Eden, Colorado: 96 killed when a train derailed on a bridge during a flash flood
March 1, 1910: Wellington, Wash: 96 people were killed when two trains were swept into a canyon by an avalanche
Nov. 1, 1918: Brooklyn, New York: 92 killed in a New York subway train which derailed in a tunnel in Brooklyn
Feb. 6, 1951: Woodbridge, New Jersey: 85 killed when a Pennsylvania Railroad commuter train plunged through a temporary overpass
Nov. 22, 1950: Richmond Hill, New York: 79 killed when a Long Island Rail Road commuter train crashed into the rear of another in New York's borough of Queens
Dec. 16, 1943: Rennert, North Carolina: Two Atlantic Coast Line trains derailed near Rennert, N.C., killing 72 people.
Sept. 22, 1993: Mobile, Alabama: 47 killed in the worst accident in Amtrak history. The Sunset Limited plunged into a bayou while en route to Miami from a weakened bridge that had been rammed by a barge minutes earlier
Oct. 30, 1972: Chicago Illinois: 45 killed when two Illinois Central commuter trains collided during morning rush hour
Jan. 1, 1987: Chase Maryland: 16 killed when an engineer drove three linked Conrail engines through a closed track switch and into the path of an Amtrak train

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