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Railroad Collision

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Posted by Erika Bock, 12 November 2012 at 2:53

My dad was in a head on train accident in Kakabeka Falls, Thunder Bay sometime in the late 1940's...The engineer lost his life...I wonder if its the same crash?

Posted by [Name Withheld], 20 November 2015 at 9:20

Thinking this was Nelson West, this would have been around 1948 - 49...this happened just west of Schreiber.

Posted by Colleen L Crompton, 17 July 2022 at 12:46

If this involved two trains, this may have been a wreck in 1944. My grandfather was an engineer, George Beardsley Crompton Sr. He lost his life in a head on train collision (hauling a load of paper) in November 1944 near Bear Pass, Ontario. He was the only fatality.

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