Six Freight Cars Thrown from the Track at the Lockport Junction – The Work Train and Crew Ordered to the Scene of the Accident, Etc
We are obliged to chronicle another railroad accident on the Central railway last night. As the heavy laden freight train which passed through this city a few minutes after eight o’clock, was speeding along over the iron rail at as high a rate of speed as one locomotivo could draw some forty loaded cars up grade, one of the cars from some unknown cause, jumped the track at the Lockport Junction, three miles west of this city, and five other cars followed suit. The wreck train, stationed in this city, was telegraphed for, and in an incredibly short space of time it arrived upon the scene. The crew, under the direction of Conductor SHAY, who by the way is one of the best and ablest men that ever had charge of this train, set to work with a will and soon the blockade was removed. The whole six cars, wbich were placed upon the track, and drawn off for repairs, were more or less injured. No one was injured.
Source: Lockport [NY] Daily Journal, 11 November 1880, p. 3, NYS Historic Newspapers.