Rockport Wreck
The Old Road was the site of the DLW's most infamous train wreck. On June 16, 1925, a passenger train carrying German and American tourists from Chicago to Hoboken arrived well ahead of schedule at Slateford Junction. It was slated to run over the Lackawanna Cut-Off, but in order to avoid freight trains on the line, it was diverted onto the Old Road to Port Morris. At Rockport, NJ, the train struck debris washed onto a road crossing by a heavy thunderstorm. The train derailed, and killed 47 passengers and three trainmen.
In 1995, on the 70th anniversary of the wreck, a stone and plaque was erected at the Rockport crossing to remember the lives lost.
Read more about this topic: Lackawanna Old Road
Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“The old man had heard that there was a wreck and knew most of the particulars, but he said that he had not been up there since it happened. It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most ... and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)