THG Podcast: Railway Disasters

[@teresapyeatt3698]

As a civilian and US Army railroader, and a friend of a fellow soldier who was the last Train Master of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. I greatly appreciate and enjoyed this podcast. Thank you !

[@ernestweaver9720]

Absolutely they do deserve to be remembered. Thank you for the forgotten history.

[@MichaelSHartman]

How relevant when one considers that presently we have twice as many train cars per engine, half as many crew, crew working longer hours, layoffs, and a 50% shortage of diesel fuel. Often there is one person running a train. It is an accident waiting to happen. Longer trains often mean trains can not pass one another using a side track where as in the past they could. I have seen trains go from an occasional 100 car train to a much slower 238 car train. Needless to say slower, less utilized trains, and unfueled trains add to the supply chain crisis. A loss of profit could cause train companies to close. Unions are striking for better safety concerns, more employees, and a minor pay increase. I wonder about the conditions of the tracks for lack of money, and excess of weight.

[@larrydemaar409]

There is a book about this circus train wreck:”The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918: Tragedy on the Indiana Lakeshore” by Richard Lytle. It happened on the Michigan Central Railroad which became part of the New York Central Railroad at Ivanhoe.

[@Pluggit1953]

You speak with the same intonation as your dad. ❤

[@miaherssens16]

I live in Flanders Belgium. Some leftover WWI narrow gauge track was used to move clay to a local brick factory in the rebuilding time between the end of WWI and the beginning of the great depression.

[@robertandreasen6023]

There are so many stories like this one that are all but forgotten. I recently watched a video on another channel ( Ask a Mortician) about the SS Easton in 1915. The video is shadow banned ,you can't share it. More than 800 people died in the worst disaster in Chicago's history and it has been nearly forgotten. It is a very good video, maybe you and your team can take a look at it and expand upon it. In my opinion, to borrow your line, it's history that deserves to be remembered.

[@scottrichards3587]

Although there have been tragedies in the past, modern passenger rail transportation is much safer than personal vehicle transportation. The development of the interstate highway system ruined passenger rail for most of the United States. In retrospect, Eisenhower was a terrible president. Wish he had known the long term consequences of building the interstates.

[@teresapyeatt3698]

Eisenhower actually built the interstate highway system for the military to get troops across the nation. Or at least that's what the original purpose was.

[@leebrock4783]

@@teresapyeatt3698 Wasn't he the one who warned us about the military industrial complex? Maybe a little ironic.

[@rc3088]

THANK YOU,

[@R.C.425]

Great video. Thank you

[@pamelagotham53]

Fascinating info

[@user-nx8tk1pp5o]

Ever heard of the Angola Horror? Or Ashtabula? Mr. Wohler created the study of metal fatigue due to railroad axles fracturing.

[@imustbecrazy5626]

Since I got a notification and my phone was in my pocket...did I have Lance in My Pants? It's a old potato chip commercial.

[@teresapyeatt3698]

Lance crackers 😄

[@imustbecrazy5626]

@@teresapyeatt3698 There it is. I knew it was junk food of some type.

[@constipatedinsincity4424]

Back in the Saddle Again Naturally

[@Flymochairman1]

There are several books on the Quintinshill Disaster.

[@candybanks8717]

I didn't even know they had a train in the WW1 era that could do 80mph.

[@stevedenney2110]

I can understand the engineer dozing off, but what was his fireman doing?

[@jeffchrivia5904]

As far as the world's first roll on roller fairy might want to go do a couple more history looking at the Great lakes they got it be

[@SisterShirley]

Huh???

[@Guangrui]

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[@donnahaynes8766]

didn't you tell us a story about a nurse involved with the WWI train disaster in another episode?

[@merlinwizard1000]

13th, 25 October 2022

[@anoniaciesluk3273]

Roust about

[@anoniaciesluk3273]

The unknown worker in circuses.