Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/March 15

Aerial view of the Bourbonnais train accident

1915 – The Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railway, later known as the Monon Railroad, acquires control of the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad.[1]
1937 – The last tram operates on the Porte de Saint-Cloud-Porte de Vincennes line in Paris, France.[2]
1999 – In the Bourbonnais train accident (pictured), the southbound Amtrak train 59, City of New Orleans, strikes a loaded semi-truck on a grade crossing in Bourbonnais, Illinois; all but three of the passenger cars derail, killing 11 of the train's passengers. The NTSB attributes the cause to the truck driver trying to beat the train at the crossing.
2006 – At the sixth meeting of the Franco-German Council of Ministers, the new railway bridge over the Rhine between Strasbourg and Kehl is authorized.[2]

References

Smith, Cecil J. (2006). "This day in Monon history". Monon Railroad Historical-Technical Society. Retrieved March 15, 2007.
"15 mars dans les chemins de fer". French language Wikipedia (in French). February 16, 2007. Retrieved March 15, 2007.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.