Naperville Train Crash Remembered

[Vanessa]

Ran across this article this morning in the SunTimes. Thought it was particularly interesting since the main remembrances are from a female Marine who was on site to help immediately after the crash and the fact that most of the train was loaded with returning servicemen.

April 25, 1946 Train Crash

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here are some color photos of the Naperville train crash. Click on:


http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03245.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03241.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03243.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03244.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03246.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03247.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03248.jpg

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/full/P03249.jpg


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[Vanessa]

Interesting. Really drives home how terrible a crash it was.

 

[penfencer]

Marc- are those Cushman photos?

 

[Katt in Hat]

Long Island RR hit a bad patch in 1950

Tragedy struck in 1950--twice. Two train wrecks nine months apart killed 111 people. The LIRR went into bankruptcy. This toll was about 2 1/2 times that of Illinois crash. That the earlier crash killed so many service men who had survived the War lends great poignancy to the IL tragedy.