Q engine was 6106...IC two unit diesel...? Cause was IC engineer was distracted
by "warning signal" from engine room and fireman went back to check.? Engr
missed indication of approach signal and when he saw home signal displaying top
it was too late.
Read the report for details.
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, Aug 8, 2009 9:19 pm
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Aug 7, 1947 IC passenger and CB&Q freight derailment south
of Litchfield, IL
ICC Website gives full details and cause of this affair...The report shows it
happened Aug 6, 47
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: lyon_wonder <lyon_wonder@yahoo.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sat, Aug 8, 2009 7:56 pm
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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