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Rootsweb.com RSS Feed for CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS Rootsweb.com RSS feed for CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS en-us Copyright 2005 by MyFamily.inc 2008-12-27T16:48:06-06:00 helpdesk@rootsweb.com helpdesk@rootsweb.com Rootsweb.com 2005-05-01T00:00:00-06:00 1 hourly [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Beloil Bridge Train Wreck http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-12/1230421686 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: carson6220 Surnames: Bay/Bey/Bai Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.disasters.canada.train/100/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My Great-grandparents whose names were Gottlieb and Bertha Bay were aboard that train/their oldest son Karl was killed and is buried at Mt Royal Cemetery along with a cousin with the same last name. They were German and came aboard the ship named Nickar. If there is any further info regarding them, such as where they were from in Germany it would be greatly apppreciated. I believe there was a Canadian newspaper article from that time that actually quoted a Mrs. Bai Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> 2008-12-27T16:48:06-06:00 [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] LOOKING FOR INFO ON CANADIAN TRAIN WRECK AT WHITE, ONTARIO 25 AUG 1957 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-11/1225664347 I am looking for any information and photos of a train wreck at White, Ontario on or about 25 August 1957. Send to: kaerophil@gmail.com Thanks, Ken Sanford "Ken Sanford" <kaerophil@gmail.com> 2008-11-02T15:19:07-06:00 [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Train accident in Oxbow http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-07/1216351885 Hello, Does anyone have information about a CPR train accident which took place in Oxbox, Saskatchewan on Sept.25, 1915 ? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: <canadian-train-disasters-request@rootsweb.com> To: <canadian-train-disasters@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:02 AM Subject: CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Wreck July 22, 1941 at Tripoli, near White River Ontario (Jshep) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:15:01 -0400 > From: Jshep <jshep@stoneyburn.ca> > Subject: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Wreck July 22, 1941 at Tripoli, > near White River Ontario > To: CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <487CE925.80600@stoneyburn.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > Would any listers have any information regarding the wreck that occurred > on July 22,1941 at Tripoli, mileage 102.7 of the White River Subdivision > when two passenger trains of The Dominion collided due to an overlap of > authority? > > thanks > > Jim > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS list administrator, send an email > to > CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS mailing list, send an > email to CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4 > ****************************************************** "Linda" <brylingreenwood@shaw.ca> 2008-07-17T21:31:25-06:00 [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Wreck July 22, 1941 at Tripoli, near White River Ontario http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-07/1216145701 Would any listers have any information regarding the wreck that occurred on July 22,1941 at Tripoli, mileage 102.7 of the White River Subdivision when two passenger trains of The Dominion collided due to an overlap of authority? thanks Jim Jshep <jshep@stoneyburn.ca> 2008-07-15T12:15:01-06:00 [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Cisco BC 1914 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-05/1209860515 This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: PatriciaCSmith Surnames: CHENIER Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.disasters.canada.train/99/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Does anyone have any information on an accident which happened May 1914 at Cisco BC regarding the railway and/or bridge construction? I have a relative who died at Cisco in May 1914. We know he worked on several bridges and structures for the railway. In 1911 Census he was working for the Dominion Bridge Company so I am presuming he still worked for them in 1914. I have seen photos taken of the area in that time period and what appears to be construction work, and an accident. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. "gc-gateway@rootsweb.com" <gc-gateway@rootsweb.com> 2008-05-03T18:21:55-06:00 Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-04/1208719598 February 17, 1916 at Sioux Lookout ON at milepost 1481/2 In a message dated 4/20/2008 12:19:03 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca writes: It would almost certainly be in either a local newspaper - if you knew the date - or in the Sessional Papers of the House of Commons for 1916 or 1917, under the Minister of Railways' annual report, if the incident occurred on the Intercolonila Railway, which was the federally-owned railway that became the keystone of Canadian National Railways in 1919. Jay Underwood Elmsdale NS. > > From: Trunthsams@aol.com > Date: 2008/04/20 Sun PM 01:44:10 EDT > To: canadian-train-disasters@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 > > Same incident but I found a new cousin and version. > > She was told that somehow two trains were on the same track, one freight and > one passenger. Somehow they knew that they were headed for each other. Gid > Fairbairn had his crew jump off and he stayed at the break to slow the > freight train to lessen the impact. He was the only one to die that day. He died > of suffocation so there must have been a collision causing a fire. > > Would that not be public record? > > Bonnie > > > ************** > Need a new ride? 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(http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) Trunthsams@aol.com 2008-04-20T13:26:38-06:00 Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-04/1208719071 It would almost certainly be in either a local newspaper - if you knew the date - or in the Sessional Papers of the House of Commons for 1916 or 1917, under the Minister of Railways' annual report, if the incident occurred on the Intercolonila Railway, which was the federally-owned railway that became the keystone of Canadian National Railways in 1919. Jay Underwood Elmsdale NS. > > From: Trunthsams@aol.com > Date: 2008/04/20 Sun PM 01:44:10 EDT > To: canadian-train-disasters@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 > > Same incident but I found a new cousin and version. > > She was told that somehow two trains were on the same track, one freight and > one passenger. Somehow they knew that they were headed for each other. Gid > Fairbairn had his crew jump off and he stayed at the break to slow the > freight train to lessen the impact. He was the only one to die that day. He died > of suffocation so there must have been a collision causing a fire. > > Would that not be public record? > > Bonnie > > > ************** > Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used > car listings at AOL Autos. > > (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > <jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca> 2008-04-20T13:17:51-06:00 Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-04/1208713450 Same incident but I found a new cousin and version. She was told that somehow two trains were on the same track, one freight and one passenger. Somehow they knew that they were headed for each other. Gid Fairbairn had his crew jump off and he stayed at the break to slow the freight train to lessen the impact. He was the only one to die that day. He died of suffocation so there must have been a collision causing a fire. Would that not be public record? Bonnie ************** Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) Trunthsams@aol.com 2008-04-20T11:44:10-06:00 Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-04/1208488806 The death registration simply says that Gid died of suffocation. I assumed it was a train fire. I am in contact recently with Gid's granddaughter and she is the one who said that the family lore was that it had to do with espionage. In a message dated 4/17/2008 5:45:16 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca writes: There were teams of known German saboteurs at work in the US in that period, and the track through Sioux Falls could have carried troops from the west of Canada to Halifax, where most of the troop transport ships left after the UBoat scare closed off the port at Quebec and most of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The only likely non-war cause of a derailment - since it was February - could have been ice-related. **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) Trunthsams@aol.com 2008-04-17T21:20:06-06:00 Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS/2008-04/1208479448 There were teams of known German saboteurs at work in the US in that period, and the track through Sioux Falls could have carried troops from the west of Canada to Halifax, where most of the troop transport ships left after the UBoat scare closed off the port at Quebec and most of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The only likely non-war cause of a derailment - since it was February - could have been ice-related. Jay Underwood > > From: Trunthsams@aol.com > Date: 2008/04/17 Thu PM 08:08:52 EDT > To: canadian-train-disasters@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 > > so we are talking German sabotage? > > Unless Gid was the only one to jump he was the only death for that date in > Ontario death records. I guess he could have been unlucky and landed in a > snow bank. > > So Gid's train would have been carrying something war related in Sioux > Lookout of all places? Another train on the same track would be to cause a > derailment? > > Bonnie > > > In a message dated 4/17/2008 4:02:13 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > jp.underwood@ns.sympatico.ca writes: > > It is very difficult to determine if it was sabotage or not. The government > did not relase such information at the time, and there was no accident > investigation board such as exists today. > The press at the time had a code of self-imposed censorship so as not to > raise public concern. This was broken briefly when Werner Von Horne attempted to > blow up the bridge at Vanceboro, Maine, which was being used by the the CPR > at the time. I am working on the details of a derailment in Nova Scotia that > might have been sabotage involving a train carrying benzol, just months > before the Halifax Explosion, but the press coverage is scanty and there is no > suggestion of sabotage even though it must surely have been on everyone's mind. > Certainly the Intercolonial Railway (CN's predecessor) was aware of the > potential for sabotage. The viaduct at East Mines NS is still "gaurded" by the > remnants of gun pits that were manned by members of my old regiment in the > First World World War. > > Jay Underwood > Nova Scotia Railway Heritage Society > > > > > > From: Trunthsams@aol.com > > Date: 2008/04/17 Thu PM 06:34:34 EDT > > To: CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [CANADIAN-TRAIN-DISASTERS] Souix Lookout 1916 > > > > There was a train wreck or incident on Feb.17, 1916 at mile post 1481/2 > > > The family believes that they were told that there were two trains on the > track > > and some sort of espionage going on. The engineer, Gid Fairbairn, jumped > > off and landed in a snow back and suffocated in the snow. Looking at the > death > > registrations for that date and place Gid was the only one to die. > > > > Could this have been intentional and espionage? The war was still on. > > > > Bonnie > > in California > > > > > > > > **************Need a new ride? 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