What the records say
- When
- 6 Sep 1943
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 40.00° N, 75.10° W
- Description
- train wreck
- Deaths
- 79
- Injured
- 117
1943 Frankford Junction train wreck
Pennsylvania Railroad disaster in Port Richmond, Pennsylvania, USA
The Frankford Junction train wreck occurred on September 6, 1943, when one of the Pennsylvania Railroad's premier trains, the Congressional Limited, crashed at Frankford Junction in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
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