The old Farmingdale-Squan Village railroad, I seem to remember hearing of an accident between the above named in the 1930s in which a locomotive hit a washout in a swampy stretch, and turned over. Supposedly the engineer and/or fireman were killed. Has anyone any information on this? Of course, it would have been Pennsy at the time.
I have an article on it somewhere. There was indeed a washout about a mile east of Hurley Pond Road. The engine crew died after the locomotive rolled over, and many people were injured, and had to walk or be carried out to the road during a raging rainstorm. The first car, a combine, derailed and also rolled over and the coach following stayed on the rails. The wreck happened on June 10, 1940. The train was eastbound for Long Branch.
https://www.nytimes.com/1940/06/10/arch ... ie-as.html