I stop for coffee and gas every once in a while at the Sheetz C store along Pa 65 in Baden that day while enjoying my coffee on cold day across road way they where working on nearby tracks and an older gentleman standing beside me who I greeted and agreed weather was very cold said to me yes good day not to be working outside. He went on to talk about a bad train wreck in 41 nearby on
March 17 1941 the Cleveland to Pittsburgh Passenger Train is en route thru Beaver County in Baden when it is thrown from the tracks 40 feet into the Ohio River which results in 5 dead it is discovered the trains tracks have been loosened and the protective signal which warns of track separation had been bypassed.
A suspect is arrested but released and the case has gone unsolved over 70 years.
http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/13655/baden-pa-train-wrecked-mar-1941
This is prior to America entering WWII but it is going on overseas and there are those in America under suspicion of being collaborators and sleeper agents ready to attack in particular German Citizens who are major part of immigrants in the country. If they did have anything with the wreck there has been no connection established. Was it a Disgruntled Railroad Employee very possible it took expert knowledge to disable the signal system.
But none was found responsible. It is believed the actual target was the Manhattan Limited which passed earlier with out incident .lots of questions but no answers.
There is also an unsolved train wreck from sabotage in Lawrence County as well
March 17 1941 the Cleveland to Pittsburgh Passenger Train is en route thru Beaver County in Baden when it is thrown from the tracks 40 feet into the Ohio River which results in 5 dead it is discovered the trains tracks have been loosened and the protective signal which warns of track separation had been bypassed.
A suspect is arrested but released and the case has gone unsolved over 70 years.
http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/13655/baden-pa-train-wrecked-mar-1941
This is prior to America entering WWII but it is going on overseas and there are those in America under suspicion of being collaborators and sleeper agents ready to attack in particular German Citizens who are major part of immigrants in the country. If they did have anything with the wreck there has been no connection established. Was it a Disgruntled Railroad Employee very possible it took expert knowledge to disable the signal system.
But none was found responsible. It is believed the actual target was the Manhattan Limited which passed earlier with out incident .lots of questions but no answers.
There is also an unsolved train wreck from sabotage in Lawrence County as well
In a strange twist while reading about the baden story in a local paper It reminded me of a similar passenger train wreck in 1995 in Arizona where train was deliberately derailed in similar manner and no suspects found.
a note saying Sons of Gestapo an unknown group was responsible. Coincidence ?
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