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The Great Shohola Train Wreck – Two Elusive Participants

In researching the participants involved in the Great Shohola Train Wreck, the one individual who supposedly allowed the coal train to enter the main line at Lackawaxen and the other individual who supposedly was a member of the Union guard on the prisoner train, have been very difficult to locate in records not associated with […]

The Great Shohola Train Wreck – A Local Newspaper’s Early Report

The blog post today is a continuation of the on-going series in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck.  To see all the posts in this series, click on ShoholaTrainWreck. A photocopy of a fourteen-page type-script purporting to be of a newspaper article from the 22 July 1864, Tri-States Union, a […]