By: Ardis E. Parshall - October 14, 2022 For a week or more, western newspapers carried stories about the wreck of two trains near Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the early morning hours of 20 September 1884. Three trainmen were killed, including two in the engine who heroically stayed at their posts applying brakes and trying to prevent the collision instead of taking their chances in jumping from the train. No passengers died, although th...
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