Train Crash Collection

Wreck of Bar Harbor express, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Wreck of Bar Harbor express, 1913. Shows people looking at wrecked railroad cars after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

Engine which wrecked Bar Harbor Express, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Engine which wrecked Bar Harbor Express, 1913. Shows wrecked engine after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

New Haven R.R. wreck, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
New Haven R.R. wreck, 1913. Shows damage to a Pullman wooden Skylark parlor railroad car as a result of an accident on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad at Stamford, Connecticut, June 12

Wreck of car Chrisholm, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Wreck of car Chrisholm, 1913. Shows people looking at wrecked railroad cars after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

Wreck of car "Chancellor", North Haven, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Wreck of car "Chancellor", North Haven, 1913. Shows people looking at wrecked railroad cars after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor

Vestibule of "Chancellor", 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Vestibule of "Chancellor", 1913. Shows people looking at wrecked railroad cars after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

Westbrook Train Wreck, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Westbrook Train Wreck, between c1910 and c1915

B & O Wreck - Washington, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
B & O Wreck - Washington, between c1910 and c1915

Engine which wrecked train on New Haven, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Engine which wrecked train on New Haven, 1913. Shows wrecked engine after a railroad accident in which the White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express

The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: the scene on Saturday night, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, near Huntingdon: working parties removing the injured, from a sketch by Mr. Gompertz, a passenger, 1876

The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: raising an engine from the wrecked train, 1876. Creator: Unknown
The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: raising an engine from the wrecked train, 1876. On 21 January 1876, the Edinburgh-London Special Scotch Express was involved in a collision

The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: general view of the scene of the accident, 1876. Creator: Crane
The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, Huntingdon: general view of the scene of the accident, 1876. On 21 January 1876, the Edinburgh-London Special Scotch Express was involved in a collision

The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, near Huntingdon...1876. Creator: Unknown
The Railway Accident at Abbotts Ripton, near Huntingdon: working parties removing the injured, from a sketch by Mr. Gompertz, a passenger, 1876

After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880. Creator: Joseph Keppler
After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880

After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880. Creator: Joseph Keppler
After the Chicago Catastrophe, from Puck, 1880

The Borki train disaster on October 29, 1888. Found in the Collection of State History Museum, Moscow

Christ Pantocrator. (On the Occasion of the Miraculous Rescue during the Imperial Trains Accident, Artist: Ovchinnikov)
Christ Pantocrator. (On the Occasion of the Miraculous Rescue during the Imperial Trains Accident, 17 October 1888), 1884. Private Collection

Military train accident in Dorpat, Russia, 1897. Artist: F Meaulle
Military train accident in Tartu (Dorpat), Russia, 1897. Today Tartu is in Estonia. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 30th May 1897

Train Crash at Bellevue in 1842 (19th century). From the Chateau of Sceaux, France

The Great Western Railway disaster at Thorpe near Norwich, 10 September 1874. Front page illustration taken from the Illustrated London News, (Vol 65, 19 September, 1874)

Justice at Fault, 1887. Artist: Joseph Swain
Justice at Fault, 1887. Mr Punch tells the policeman holding the train driver captive that he has one of those responsible for the latest railway crash but

Muddleby Junction, 1872. Artist: Joseph Swain
Muddleby Junction, 1872. A signalman wonders what train should be running on which line, and what order all the trains will come through

Railway Responsability, 1874. Artist: Joseph Swain
Railway Responsability, 1874. Mr Punch tells a fat railway director that his train operators - seen in the background amidst the buffers

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