When the locomotives met, their boilers exploded almost simultaneously, hurling metal fragments and debris high into the air.

FRENCHTOWN – This is a story of railroad passions. It starts in 1910 with a fatal train wreck west of Alberton, and again in 1973, when Bill O’Neill spotted the locomotive’s boiler plate in the Clark ...

Division of Transportation Railroad Reference Files, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees ...