Message 26572 in TODAY.WW
From: KF5JRV
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 26 08:51:00 Z
Newsgroups: TODAY.WW
Subject: Today in History - Jul 25
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What is believed to be the first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurs when four people are thrown off a vacant car
on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts. The victims had been invited to view the process of transporting large and
weighty loads of stone when a cable on a vacant car snapped on the return trip, throwing them off the train and over a 34-foot
cliff. One man was killed and the others were seriously injured.
The acceptance of railroads came quickly in the 1830s, and by 1840 the nation had almost 3,000 miles of railway, greater than t
he combined European total of only 1,800 miles. The railroad network expanded quickly in the years before the Civil War, and by
1860 the American railroad system had become a national network of some 30,000 miles. Nine years later, transcontinental railr
oad service became possible for the first time.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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