What the records say
- When
- 25 Apr 1948
- Kind
- Rail accident
- Coordinates
- 41.78° N, 88.14° W
- Description
- rear-end collision at Naperville, Illinois, April 25, 1948
- Deaths
- 45
- Injured
- 125
Naperville train disaster
1946 US passenger train crash
The Naperville train disaster occurred on April 25, 1946, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad at Loomis Street in Naperville, Illinois, when the railroad's Exposition Flyer rammed into the Advance Flyer, which had made an unscheduled stop to check its running gear. The Exposition Flyer had been coming through on the same track at 80 miles per hour (130 km/h). There were 45 deaths and some 125 injuries.
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