• Circa 1890 - First Wreck on the Mackinac Greenville

  • Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.
Discussion relating to the NYC and subsidiaries, up to 1968. Visit the NYCS Historical Society for more information.

Moderator: Otto Vondrak

  by Roger Hensley
 
Circa 1890 - First Wreck on the Mackinac Greenville (actually Mackinaw)
Reverse of the picture notes... "Katzenburgers. 114 W. Main St., Greenville Ohio". Photographer A.M. Johnson of Greenville Ohio.
Gordon Davids: The "Mackinaw" was the Cincinnati, Jackson and Mackinaw, which later morphed into the Cincinnati Northern and came under the reign of a trainmaster at Van Wert named William Robert Foster, and at a later time a Track Supervisor at Bryan named Gordon Alan Davids (for a VERY short period.)
Lawrence Baggerly Collection.

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  by NKP1155
 
Only report of a railroad incident at Greenville, OH was on November 8, 1892, when the morning northbound express rear ended a gravel train. The photo shows a lot of leaves on that tree for the month of November.