This is a list of the most serious U.S. rail-related accidents (excluding intentional acts such as the 1939 City of San Francisco derailment).
1903 Purdue Wreck.
1910 Green Mountain train wreck.
1919 New York Central collision.
On a hectic Labor Day, 1920, a train full of baseball fans left Louisville, headed for a game in Denver. At the same time, a train left Denver, with riders bound for a long weekend in Eldorado Springs. The Denver train departed before the track was cleared, and the two collided at Globeville, where I-25 and I-70 now meet. Twelve people were killed, half of them from Louisville, and over two hundred were injured.
Globeville was at the edge of the Denver city limits… scene of the line's only major wreck, when two cars collided on Labor Day 1920, killing 12 and injuring 214. The holiday may have contributed to the disaster; the cars were overloaded and the motormen called in to handle the extra crowds were inexperienced. The wreck was front page news for weeks…
1944 Stockton train wreck.
1945 Michigan train wreck.
This mode of occupant ejection seems to have occurred as early as the passenger train derailment at Redondo Junction, California, in 1956
1977 Chicago Loop derailment,.
{{cite journal}}
: Cite journal requires |journal=
(help)1991 Union Square .