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American History

Squaredeal

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1. This was an era when wood coaches and rail cars were made of wood.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2024, 09:27 AM

Mar 2024

Passengers had no protection in the event of a train accident. They got crushed. Often, when another train hit a passenger train, each car would telescope into the next coach. Winter also brought the additional risk of upsetting the coal stoves, used to heat the interiors, and trapped survivors would burn to death.

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On this day, March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in United States history buried a train in Washington state. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 OP

This was an era when wood coaches and rail cars were made of wood. Squaredeal Mar 2024 #1

1910 Stevens Pass avalanche still deadliest in U.S. history mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 #2

Six years later, another avalanche swept over a Great Northern train, seven miles to the west of the 1910 avalanche. mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2024 #3