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American History

FadedMullet

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2. Read the Wikipedia account. Really interesting as it goes into numerous details, everything from....

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 02:34 PM

Apr 21

......the type of locomotive, history of the curve in the track to the 35 Chinese nationals who were be being transported to San Francisco by U.S. Marshall’s to be deported and survived because they were in the last car. Wouldn’t you like to know how the news media handled that detail back then?

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On April 19, 1940, 31 people were killed when a New York Central passenger train derailed in Little Falls, New York. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 21 OP

Thanks for posting this. I remember my parents talking about this in the fifties like it was..... FadedMullet Apr 21 #1

Read the Wikipedia account. Really interesting as it goes into numerous details, everything from.... FadedMullet Apr 21 #2