Trouble on the Tracks: Grand Trunk Railway of New England Tragedies

In the 1850s, Grand Trunk Railway, later Canadian National, was one of New England’s and Canada’s most important and heavily travelled railway lines It linked Canadas metropolis, Montreal – through Vermont and New Hampshire – with the nearest ice-free port at Portland, Maine. Despite constant upgrading, accidents did occur, some of them catastrophic. With details about four dozen such tragedies, you will learn what happened when people, vehicles, or nature decided to duel with a fully-loaded train. Discover the circumstances when a cattle train hit a mudslide …a passenger train toppled over the bank …two locomotives met in heavy fog that made it impossible to see …two trains, one fully-loaded with immigrants, came towards each other on ONE track! …the West Paris Bridge collapsed …two double-headed freight trains collided head-on …train hit fuel tanker truck, with ensuing explosion and fire …a derailment toppled a chlorine tank car off a bridge onto the highway below.