The Online Books Page

Railroad accidents

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

Broader terms:

Narrower terms:

Used for:

Collisions, Railroad
Derailments
Rail disasters
Railroad collisions
Railroads -- Accidents
Railroad trains -- Accidents
Railroad wrecks
Railway accidents
Railway disasters
Train wrecks
Wrecks, Railroad
Wrecks, Train

Filed under: Railroad accidents

Notes on Railroad Accidents (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879), by Charles Francis Adams
- HTML at catskillarchive.com
- multiple formats at archive.org
Railroad Accidents: Their Causes and the Means of Preventing Them (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1856), by Emile With, trans. by G. Forrester Barstow, contrib. by Auguste Perdonnet (page images at MOA)
The effectiveness of automatic protection in reducing accident frequency and severity at public grade crossings in California. (U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1975), by California Public Utilities Commission. Transportation Division. Traffic Engineering Section and United States. Federal Highway Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
A practical treatise on shock after surgical operations and injuries : with especial reference to shock caused by railway accidents (J.-B. Lippincott, 1868), by Edwin Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad emergency procedures (The Board, 1980), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
On railway and other injuries of the nervous system (H. C. Lea, 1867), by John Eric Erichsen (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accidents, their cause and prevention (The Association of railway claim agents, 1906), by R. C. Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on railroad accidents (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1879), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Labor and the railroads. (Houghton Mifflin, 1909), by James O. Fagan (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway injuries: with special reference to those of the back and nervous system, in their medico-legal and clinical aspects. (William Wood, 1892), by Herbert W. Page (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accidents: their causes and the means of preventing them. (Little, Brown and company, 1856), by Emile With, G. Forrester Barstow, and Auguste Perdonnet (page images at HathiTrust)
The great railway catastrophe of the 12th March, 1857, on the Desjardin canal bridge, on the line of the Great western railway. ([n.p., 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway surgery : a handbook on the management of injuries (W. Wood and company, 1899), by Clinton B. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
Railways; their rise, progress, and construction: with remarks on railway accidents, and proposals for their prevention. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846), by Robert Ritchie (page images at HathiTrust)
Prevention of railroad accidents; or, Safety in railroading; a heart to heart talk with employes ... An address (with considerable new matter) delivered at various division headquarters to employes of the New York central and Hudson River railroad (The Norman W. Henley Publishing Co., 1912), by George Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
L'électricité et les chemins de fer (Lacroix et Baudry, 1859), by Manuel Fernandez de Castro (page images at HathiTrust)
A treatise upon railway signals and accidents. (E. & F. N. Spon, 1874), by Archibald Davis Dawnay (page images at HathiTrust)
Illinois Central Gulf Railroad freight train and Mobil Oil Company tractor/cargo-tank semitrailer collision and fire, Kenner, Louisiana, November 25, 1980 (Washington, D.C. : National Transportation Safety Board, [1981], 1981), by United States. Bureau of Accident Investigation and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
The need of automatic train control, with facts concerning its development and present status (The Railway review co., 1920), by Walter Mason Camp (page images at HathiTrust)
Rettung der Eisenbahnpassagiere bei Unglücksfällen. Rathschläge in Bezug auf das Verhalten der Passagiere während der Fahrt, beim Anhalten des Zuges, und bei vorkommenden Unglucksfällen (s.n.,], 1885), by C. A. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
Gedanken über die Sicherheit und Ökonomie des Eisenbahnbetriebes (A. Hartleben, 1893), by Eduard Wilczek (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway accidents in the United States and Europe and prevention of railway accidents. (The H.O. Shepard Company, 1904), by Slason Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
Die haftpflicht der eisenbahnen, bergwerke u.s.w. für die bei deren betriebe herbeigeführten tödtungen und körperverletzungen. Erläuterungen des reichsgesetzes vom 7. juni 1871. (J. Guttentag (D. Collin.), 1885), by Wilhelm Endemann (page images at HathiTrust)
Importance of safety in railroad operation. ([Baltimore?, 1921), by Charles William Galloway (page images at HathiTrust)
Special study; signals and operating rules as causal factors in train accidents. (Washington, 1971), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Special study : train accidents attributed to the "negligence of employees" : adopted: May 24, 1972 (The Board, 1972), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway coemployment (Wisconsin Free Library Commission, Legislative reference Department, 1905), by Margaret A. Schaffner (page images at HathiTrust)
Dr. Boardman's sermon on the Burlington catastrophe (Parry and McMillan, 1855), by Henry A. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho, January term, 1916: Elisha Strong, respondent, vs. Oregon Short Line Railroad Company ... appellant. Respondent's brief ... T.L. Glenn, attorney ... ([n.p.], 1916), by Elisha Strong, T. L. Glenn, and Oregon Short Line Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
In the Supreme Court of the State of Idaho, November tern, 1900: Enoch Johnson [and others] respondents, vs. the Orgeon Short Line Railroad Company ... appellants ... Brief for respondents. Winters & Guheen, attorneys ... (Tribune, 1900), by Enoch Johnson, Winters & Guheen (Attorneys), and Oregon Short Line Railroad Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accident report : derailment and subsequent burning of Delaware and Hudson railway freight train at Oneonta, New York, February 12, 1974 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1974), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accident report : collision of Missouri Pacific Railroad Company freight train extra 615 south with a standing locomotive, Cotulla, Texas, December 1, 1973 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1974), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accident report : Long Island Rail Road Company door accident, Huntington Station, New York, December 1, 1974 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1975), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Collision of Union Pacific Railroad train MHOTU-23 with BNSF Railway Company train MEAP-TUL-126-D with subsequent derailment and hazardous materials release, Macdona, Texas, June 28, 2004. (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 2006), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Collision of 2 CN freight trains, Anding, Mississippi, July 10, 2005. (National Transportation Safety Board, 2007), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Derailment of Chicago Transit Authority Train Number 220 between Clark/Lake and Grand/Milwaukee Stations Chicago, Illinois, July 11, 2006. (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 2007), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad/highway accident report : collision of a Southern Railway train with a Polk District schoolbus at Aragon, Georgia, October 23, 1974 (The Board, 1975), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Hazardous materials : federal training for first responders to highway and railroad incidents. (United States General Accounting Office, 1989), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)
Onscene coordination among agencies at hazardous materials accidents (The Board, 1979), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Non-radiological impacts of transporting radioactive material (Sandia Laboratories ;, 1982), by Robert E. Luna, Edwin L. Wilmot, Ramana K. Rao, United States. Dept. of Energy, Sandia National Laboratories. Transportation Technology Center, and NUS Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
Severities of transportation accidents involving large packages (Sandia Laboratories ;, 1978), by Albert W. Dennis, United States. Dept. of Energy. Division of Environmental Technology, and Sandia Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The path of the pantagraph; exposing great dangers to the traveling public (Printed by McElroy publishing company, 1913), by William John Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad Wreck on the M & I Railroad, June 1908 (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Train Wreck on the M & I Railroad, June 1908 (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Train Wreck on the M & I Railroad, June 1908 (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Train Wreck in front of the Northern Pacific Hospital, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1891) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Northern Pacific Railway Train Wreck, Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Railroad accident, near Brainerd (Crow Wing County Historical Society, P O Box 722, Brainerd MN 56401 crowwinghistory.org, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
What the safety committees of the Chicago and North Western Railway have done for the conservation of men ([publisher not identified], 1912), by Ralph Coffin Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial. To the [Honorable Senate and the House of Representatives, in] General Court [assembled.] ([Boston, 1800), by Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation (page images at HathiTrust)
Ueber die Folgen der Verletzungen auf Eisenbahnen, insbesondere der Verletzungen des Rückenmarks; mit Hinblick auf das Haftpflichtgesetz. (Reimer, 1879), by Johannes Rigler (page images at HathiTrust)
Notes on railroad accidents (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1879), by Charles Francis Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Annual report of railroad accidents occurring in California (California Public Utilities Commission, Transportation Division, Railroad Operations and Safety Branch, 1975), by California Public Utilities Commission. Railroad Safety Branch, California Public Utilities Commission. Safety Division, California Public Utilities Commission. Transportation Division, and California Public Utilities Commission. Railroad Operations and Safety Branch (page images at HathiTrust)
Analytic studies of the relationship between track geometry variations and derailment potential at low speeds (Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ;, 1983), by Fred B. Blader, Transportation Systems Center, Analytic Sciences Corporation, and United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)
Wheelclimb derailment processes and derailment criteria (Federal Railroad Administration, Office of Research and Development ;, 1984), by Amir Karmel, L. M. Sweet, Transportation Systems Center, United States. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research and Development, and Princeton University. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (page images at HathiTrust)
Locomotive fuel tank integrity (National Transportation Safety Board, 1992), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Pamphlets [on] railway rolling stock and railway accidents. (London, 1868), by Rousseau Absolute Safety Railway Signal Company (page images at HathiTrust)
A Bill to increase railway accidents and railway expenses; the proposed legislation to limit freight trains in Illinois to 50 cars ([Chicago?, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway accidents (s.n., 1888), by A. T. Drummond and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety on railroads. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on interstate and foreign commerce, House of representatives, Sixty-third Congress, second session, on bills relative to safety on railroads. Dec. 6, 1913-- Jan. 31, 1914. (Govt. print. off., 1913), by United States House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
Safety appliances and accident reports (G.P.O., 1900), by United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Arguments for and against limitation of length of freight trains. (Bureau of Railway Economics, 1916), by Association of American Railroads. Bureau of Railway Economics (page images at HathiTrust)
Transcipt of proceedings of the Assembly Interim Subcommittee on Industrial Safety of the Assembly Interim Committee on Industrial Relations. (Assembly of the State of California, 1963), by California. Legislature. Assembly. Interim Committee on Industrial Relations. Subcommittee on Industrial Safety (page images at HathiTrust)
Elements to be considered in establishing equitable cost allocation between the public and the railroads as related to elimination of railroad-highway grade crossings and enlargement of existing grade separation structures (Jenkins, 1955), by Arthur C. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Analysis of economic aspects of railroad crossings elimination in the city of Fresno as related to net reduction in annual cost justifiable expenditure for elimination and allocation of costs between the railroads and the public on the relative benefits theory : city alternate plan, Southern Pacific Company (Jenkins, 1955), by Arthur C. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Accidents de chemins de fer (E. Lacroix, 1867), by G. Bisson (page images at HathiTrust)
La notion d'accidents de voyageurs et la responsabilité contractuelle ... (Impr. Firmin et Montane, 1913), by Jean Guibal (page images at HathiTrust)
Elements to be considered in determining the need for enlarging existing grade crossing separations and allocation of the costs involved as specifically related to El Nido grade separation of Hawthorne Avenue and Harbor Branch Rail Line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company in the city of Torrance, California (Jenkins, 1955), by Arthur C. Jenkins (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad wrecks (Syndicate Printing Co., 1912), by Delbert Frederick Jurgensen (page images at HathiTrust)
Rules governing monthly reports of railway accidents (Washington, United States, Federal Railroad Administration, 1968), by United States. Federal Railroad Administration and United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accident report : hazardous materials accident in the railroad yard of the Norfolk and Western Railway at Decatur, Illinois, July 19, 1974 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1975), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the director of the Bureau of Safety in re investigation of an accident which occurred on the line of the Key System Transit Company at Oakland, Calif., December 4, 1924. ([Washington, D.C.?] : Interstate Commerce Commission, [1925], 1925), by Railroad Commission of the State of California, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission. Bureau of Safety and Service, and United States Interstate Commerce Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Railway and other injuries of the nervous system. (Henry C. Lea, 1867), by John Eric Erichsen and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Highway accident report : automobile intrusion onto the Long Island Railroad electrified tracks and fire, Garden City, New York, August 8, 1973 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1974), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Railroad accident report : collision of St. Louis-San Francisco Railway trains 3210 and 3211, Mustang, Oklahoma, September, 1, 1974 (National Transportation Safety Board, 1975., 1975), by United States. Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety and United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Derailment of Norfolk Southern Railway Company Train 68QB119 with release of hazardous materials and fire, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, October 20, 2006. (National Transportation Safety Board ;, 2008), by United States. National Transportation Safety Board (page images at HathiTrust)
Confessions of a Railroad Signalman, by James O. Fagan (Gutenberg ebook)
Notes on Railroad Accidents, by Charles Francis Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
Railroad Accidents, Their Cause and Prevention, by R. C. Richards (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under narrower terms.

Help with reading books -- Report a bad link -- Suggest a new listing

Home -- Search -- New Listings -- Authors -- Titles -- Subjects -- Serials

Books -- News -- Features -- Archives -- The Inside Story

Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu)
OBP copyrights and licenses.