old grade crossing accident reports

rudd · **Posted:** Wed Dec 03, 2003 1:41 pm

I am pretty sure this has been posted here before... but I CANNOT remember where to look..
does anyone know where one would find reports of old grade crossing accidents? looking at around 1963..

thanks

Rudd

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Alan Walker · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:31 am

Railroad accident reports from 1911 to 1966 can be found in the Online Special Collection of the Department of Transportation.

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Jim Evans · **Posted:** Thu Dec 04, 2003 1:44 am

> I am pretty sure this has been posted here
> before... but I CANNOT remember where to
> look..
> does anyone know where one would find
> reports of old grade crossing accidents?
> looking at around 1963..

I believe that I looked them up on the FRA website. A quick Google search gave me the attached link.

A while ago, I searched and downloaded all of them for the ex-Reading's Bethlehem Branch and placed them here:

http://jrevans.fbody.com/beth_branch/FRA_files/

JimE

FRA index of accidents
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Thomas Manz · **Posted:** Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:58 pm

> Railroad accident reports from 1911 to 1966
> can be found in the Online Special
> Collection of the Department of
> Transportation.

Since these accident reports were produced by the ICC (charged with regulating railroads), they do not include many grade crossing incidents, unless the train was derailed, or someone on the train was injured or killed. In most car-train collisions, the car is badly damaged while the train may have little more than scratched paint.

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