Name: Train Wreck! By Evelyn Edson Date: 10 September 1935 Image Number: IED01_1935 Warren Train Wreck Comments: It was early in the morning of September 10, 1935, when two C&O freight trains collided head on just west of Warren. There was a single track there, and the west-bound train received a signal to move onto a siding to let the east-bound train through. The engine had received the signal at Strathmore, just west of Bremo, but apparently fell asleep until he was rudely awakened at 1:05 a.m. In his defense, he said he had been on duty for almost eleven hours and twenty minutes. Train No. 78, the east-bound train, had 160 cars and a caboose while the west-bound train, Extra 1246, had 150 cars and a caboose. Fortunately, no one was killed, although the fireman of each engine and the head brakeman of Train 78 were injured. The accident report does not say what each train was carrying, but we assume the west-bound carried coal and the east-bound train had empty cars.
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