What the records say
- When
- 30 Aug 1943
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 42.55° N, 77.59° W
- Description
- 1943 train wreck in New York State, U.S
- Deaths
- 29
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
Lackawanna Limited wreck
1943 train wreck in New York State, U.S.
The Lackawanna Limited wreck occurred when a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad (DL&W) passenger train, the New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited with 500 passengers, crashed into a freight train on August 30, 1943, killing 29 people in the small Steuben County community of Wayland in upstate New York, approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Rochester.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Lackawanna Limited train wreck at Wayland in upstate New York causes 29 deaths and injures 114 others”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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