1922 Winslow Junction train derailment

Train wreck in New York City The 1922 Winslow Junction train derailment was a July 2, 1922Cook Coxey 1980 172 accident on the Atlantic City Railroad. Train No. 33, "The Owl", going 90 mi per hour on its scheduled run from Camden to Atlantic City (with ferry connection from Philadelphia), sped through an open switch at Winslow Junction. Seven were killed and 89 were injured.Gladulich 1986June 25, 1923 Atlantic City Railroad https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2999709&seq=308 Official Guide of the Railways 56th Year no.2 292 Feb 17, 2025 Accident The accident occurred on July 2, 1922, shortly before 11:30pm on the Atlantic City Railroad's Camden to Atlantic City Line, in Winslow, New Jersey at Winslow Junction near the WA Tower.Gladulich 1986 Train No. 33, "The Owl", with Philadelphia and Reading Railway Eng. No. 349 derailed. The train was going approximately 90 mi per hour as it sped through an open switch.Gladulich 1986 The derailment of train No. 33 resulted in most of the 6-car Atlantic City express (consisting of 1 forward coach, 1 pullman parlor car, 3 coaches & a combine car) plunging down an embankment into the WJ&S's southbound Cape May branch connecting track. This resulted in the death of three passengers, three employees, and one Pullman porter, and the injury of 84 passengers and five employees. ICC report on Winslow Junction Train Derailment Railway Signal Engineer Simmons Boardman Publishing Co (Chicago) 387–389 https://books.google.com/books?id=yRI4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA389 1922 - Version held by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics National Transportation Library. Investigation The Interstate Commerce Commission investigation found that the route could have been changed after the train had passed the distant signal at the plant was not interlocked, but there was no evidence that this had been done. The report further stated that the engineer failed to acknowledge the junction by blowing the whistle and attempting to stop the train.Gladulich 1986 From the ICC report "This accident was caused by failure of Engineman Wescott of train No. 33 to be governed by automatic and interlocking signal indications, which resulted in train No. 33 taking the diverging route at a high rate of speed and being derailed due to the outer rail of the curve giving way." See also Atlantic City Railroad Reading Company Pennsylvania–Reading Seashore Lines References Bibliography Atlantic City Railroad: The Royal Route To The Sea W. George Cook William J. Coxey 1980 West Jersey Chapter, National Railway Historical Society Palmyra, New Jersey 123–124 Gladulich Richard M. By rail to the boardwalk 1986 Trans Anglo Books Glendale, California 0-87046-076-5 External links "Eight Killed in Midnight Wreck in New Jersey" (The Deseret News, 3 Jul 1922, page 1) "Many Killed and Injured in Big Wreck" (Madera Tribune, 3 Jul 1922, page 1) "Nine Meet Death, 32 Injured, In Wreck of Jersey Flyer" (Franklin News-Herald, 3 Jul 1922, page 1) Theodore M Selden (African-Americans at Dartmouth College) 39.7199 -74.9053 type:event_globe:earth_region:US-NJ title Category:Railway accidents and incidents in New Jersey Category:Accidents and incidents involving Atlantic City Railroad Category:Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Category:Railway accidents in 1922 Category:1922 in New Jersey Category:Winslow Township, New Jersey Category:Derailments in the United States Category:July 1922 in the United States