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Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:19:05 -0400
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ICC Website gives full details and cause of this affair...The report shows it 
happened Aug 6, 47

Pete

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From: lyon_wonder <lyon_wonder@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [CBQ] Aug 7, 1947 IC passenger and CB&Q freight derailment south of 
Litchfield, IL


 



Yes, this accident happened just south of Lichfield, IL on August 7, Aug 7 of 
1947 to be exact.

There's several nice black and white photos of the accident with derailed 
passenger cars and what look like open-bay coal hoppers on the CB&Q.

The CB&Q track is the Beardstown-Centralia sub. The derailed CB&Q freight 
appears to be open-bay coal cars with coal load. BNSF still hauls coal on this 
route, so I guess some things don't change, though BNSF doesn't have to worry 
about hitting passengers trains at Litchfield since the former-IC track south 
of Farmersville has long since been abandoned:). No photos of what engines were 
at the lead of the IC and CB&Q consists, though the article mentions a coal 
tender, which means a steam loco pulled the CB&Q freight. With the IC it could 
be either a steam or diesel since they had a handful passenger diesels, though 
IC didn't really dieselize freight until the mid-1950s. 

http://blogs.sj-r.com/behindthecurtain/index.php/2009/08/06/trainwreck/ 

"An Illinois Central passenger train traveling from St. Louis to Chicago, with 
a stop planned in Springfield, went through a caution signal and slammed into a 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy freight train two miles south of Litchfield this 
date in 1947. Twenty-five people were injured, none seriously.

The Green Diamond, as the train was known, was traveling at 70 m.p.h. when it 
ripped into the freight train at a point where the two lines cross. Two 
passenger cars and a baggage car derailed and overturned. The crash occurred at 
11:15 a.m.; the train was due in Springfield at noon.

The Illinois State Journal reported that the "Diamond" struck the west-bound 
freight just behind the coal tender, smashing a box car, derailing the engine 
and causing five coal cars to overturn. None of the train crewmen were injured."








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