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Best of 2014 – The Great Shohola Train Wreck

July 15, 2014, wass the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck.  A series of posts presented here on this blog over the past year described some of the known facts and controversies regarding that disaster and also gave some personal information about some of the persons who were involved.  Much new information was […]

The Great Shohola Train Wreck – The 150th Anniversary Remembrance

The 15 July 2014, is the 150th Anniversary of the Great Shohola Train Wreck.  A series of posts presented here on this blog over the past several months described some of the known facts and controversies regarding that disaster and also gave some personal information about some of the persons who were involved.  Much new […]

The Great Shohola Train Wreck – The Other Union Guards Who Were Killed

After the bodies of the Union guard who died at Shohola were re-interred at Elmira, New York, at the Woodlawn National Cemetery, a monument was erected with a plaque that named the 17 men who are buried there in a common grave.  Previously on this blog, research was presented on two of those men, Adam […]

The Great Shohola Train Wreck – Lyman Weatherby, Union Guard Killed

One of the great ironies of the Great Shohola Train Wreck is that one of the Union guards who was killed, Lyman Wetherby, was from the same region of Pennsylvania where the coal train originated – the coal train that collided with the prisoner train resulting in Lyman’s death. The northern part of the anthracite […]