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Aftermath of the 1918 accident in Nashville

1889 – The Housatonic Railroad, a predecessor of the New Haven Railroad, leases the New Haven and Derby Railroad.
1905 – The Scott Special, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway passenger train chartered by "Death Valley Scotty" for $5,500, departs Los Angeles, California, on its record breaking run to Chicago, Illinois, in just under 45 hours.[1][2]
1918 – Two Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway trains collide head-on. 101 people are killed, and 171 are injured, making the Great train wreck of 1918 (pictured) the deadliest train accident in United States history.
1926 – The first use of a radiotelephone on a train occurs on a train of the New York Central Railroad.

References

John R. Signor, compiler. "Death Valley Scotty's "Coyote" Special". The Warbonnet. First Quarter 2006. 12 (1): 17–29.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: others (link) (The Warbonnet is the official journal of the Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society)
Waters, Leslie L. (1950). Steel Trails to Santa Fe. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. pp. 389–392.

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