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Three Hurt When Passenger Train Takes Open Switch

Rockport, Mass., Oct. 26.—(AP)—A restaurant, a freight car, one passenger car and most of a locomotive were destroyed here tonight when a Boston and Maine local passenger main, out-bound from Boston, struck an open switch in the yards. Three persons were injured.

Iron & Steam Railroads Transportation

Singular Railway Accident

A curious accident occurred on the New Albany and Salem Railway. The passenger train, having four cars filled with passengers, came to the bridge over Salt Creek, near Bloomington, and…

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Near Disaster For Philosophers

The express-train from London to Edinburgh, bearing a load of of philosophers on their way to attend the scientific meeting in that city, came to a stand at Lesbury station,…

Screen capture from a Keystone Cops film showing them in a truck labeled "police patrol"

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Notorious Bandit Ketcham Escapes

LOS ANGELES, June 30—Edwin Ketcham, notorious bandit, escaped from a train that was taking him to Folsom penitentiary today, according to a telegram from G. C. Bladel, deputy sheriff in charge of the prisoner, to the sheriff’s office here.

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A Railroad Two Feet In Width

Our engraving illustrates a railroad in the coal districts of Wales, which is but two feet in width, and which has proved exceedingly useful for the conveyance of passengers, at…

Picture of Theodore Roosevelt standing with a man in front of a train locomotive

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Roosevelt and the Engineer

The accompanying picture of Vice President Roosevelt was taken at Ogden, Utah, last September, while on his famous campaigning tour of the country. It was just before the start for…

Illustration of the queen, and several ladies and gentlemen, standing, with a railway carriage behind them.

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Her Majesty’s First Trip By Railway

On Monday her Majesty the Queen, for the first time, returned from her sojourn at Windsor Castle, accompanied by her illustrious consort, Prince Albert, Count Mensdorf, &c., by way of…

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50,000 Articles Lost

Taken in a Year from Railway Refreshment Rooms. When the justices on Friday made their final order authorising the opening of refreshment rooms of the new railway station at Newbury…

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A Sheepstealer Apprehended

Information was received at the Newport station-house this week, brought by a Somerset constable, that a sheepstealer, named Sweeting, from West Hatch and having eluded their vigilance for some time,…

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Important To Railway Travellers

UNIFORMITY OF CLOCKS THROUGHOUT GREAT BRITAIN . Now that railway-travelling has become so universal in the kingdom, doing so much to annihilate space, the question of time became a matter…