Disasters: Natural & Man-Made » Railroads

CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS Mailing List (Archived on RootsWeb)

For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in documenting train wrecks in Canada including passenger lists and those who may have perished.

GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Train Wrecks

GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable. [The original link is gone. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

Hyde Railway Disaster (Wikipedia)

Hyde, New Zealand.

Kitt Co Railroad Accidents - Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Accident Record, 1907-1909, Kittitas County, Washington

Transcript of CM&StP division engineer's field book of accidents (injury and fatality), approx. May 1907-April 1909, all in Kittitas County, Washington. Includes name, date & time, location of accident, occupation, residence, age, injuries, doctor, description of accident, witnesses, and who reported. Includes workers from US, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Includes alphabetical index of those injured or killed, doctors, and witnesses and others.

New History History - Rail Tragedy at Hyde

New Zealand History - Tangiwai Railway Disaster