The Wreck of the Red Arrow: An American Train Tragedy

ISBN: 0977980537

Author: Dennis P. McIlnay

Condition: New

7x10, cloth with dust jacket, 184 pages. "Just after 3 am on February 18, 1947, a crack passenger train of the Pennsylvania Railroad pierced the fog and frigid air in the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania." Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Bennington Chapter 2 Aftermath Chapter 3 Philadelphia Chapter 4 Response Chapter 5 "Chocolaty Mints" Chapter 6 "Up There Somewhere" Chapter 7 Investigation Chapter 8 Inquest Chapter 9 Requiem Chapter 10 The Littlest Passenger Appendices Sources and Notes Bibliography Index Credits "On February 18, 1947, the Red Arrow's "consist" (pronounced with the accent on the con), a railroading term meaning the equipment on a train behind the locomotives and tenders, was fourteen cars in the following 1. Postal Car 5473 2. Passenger Coach-Baggage Car 4758 (called a "Combine") 3. Passenger Coach 4289 4. Pullman McCarr 5. Pullman Shraders 6. Dining Car 7960 7. Pullman East Alton 8. Pullman Ogden Canyon 9. Pullman Cascade Timber 10. Pullman Dixie Land 11. Pullman Cascade Heights 12. Pullman Francis Hopkinson 13. Passenger Coach 4013 14. Baggage-Express Car 5959. Like most overnight passenger trains, the Red Arrow had sleeping cars known as "Pullmans" manufactured and operated by the Pullman Company of Chicago. (The Pennsylvania Railroad numbered its cars, while the Pullman Company gave charming names to its cars.)"