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Understanding the Custer Creek Catastrophe

Understanding the Custer Creek Catastrophe

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Benjamin Kahn
Jun 17, 2023
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This June 19 will celebrate the 85th anniversary (1938) of the Custer Creek Disaster, a train wreck that claimed more than 48 lives and injured more than 70. But this crisis was unlike many of the train wrecks we think of or read about today. It did not collide with another locomotive (such as in the recent Indian disas…

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