Part 2 of 2. SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975 by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975 by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
The Angola Horror train wreck occurred on December 18, 1867, just after 3 PM when the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a bridge, slid down into a gorge and caught fire in Angola, New York, killing approximately 49 people. At the time, it was one of the deadliest train wrecks in American history. Part 2 of 2. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 1 of 2. The Angola Horror train wreck occurred on December 18, 1867, just after 3 PM when the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a bridge, slid down into a gorge and caught fire in Angola, New York, killing approximately 49 people. At the time, it was one of the deadliest train wrecks in American history. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 2 of 2. The collapse of the Cypress Freeway (I-880) occurred during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on California’s Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The earthquake was centered near Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was a magnitude of 6.9. The earthquake was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries of which 42 died on the Cypress Freeway when the double-decker road pancaked down onto the other. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 1 of 2. The collapse of the Cypress Freeway (I-880) occurred during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on California’s Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The earthquake was centered near Santa Cruz on a section of the San Andreas Fault System and was a magnitude of 6.9. The earthquake was responsible for 63 deaths and 3,757 injuries of which 42 died on the Cypress Freeway when the double-decker road pancaked down onto the other. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 2 of 2. The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting West Virginia and Ohio. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed under the weight of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. Two were never found. The cause of the collapse was the failure of a single eyebar in a suspension chain, due to a small defect 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) deep. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 1 of 2. The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting West Virginia and Ohio. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed under the weight of rush-hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. Two were never found. The cause of the collapse was the failure of a single eyebar in a suspension chain, due to a small defect 0.1 inches (2.5 mm) deep. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee. Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet Theme music created by Michele Sargent
Part 2 of 2. The Ashtabula Horror was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. A train of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway carrying about 160 passengers passed over the bridge as it failed. All but the lead locomotive plunged into the river. The train's oil lanterns and coal-fired heating stoves set the wooden cars alight. Rescuers pulled individuals from the wreck rather than extinguish the fire, and many who survived the crash burned to death. The accident killed approximately 92 people. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/the...
The Ashtabula Horror was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. A train of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway carrying about 160 passengers passed over the bridge as it failed. All but the lead locomotive plunged into the river. The train's oil lanterns and coal-fired heating stoves set the wooden cars alight. Rescuers pulled individuals from the wreck rather than extinguish the fire, and many who survived the crash burned to death. The accident killed approximately 92 people. This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals). Email: thecornfieldmeet@gmail.com Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeet Facebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeet Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeet Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeet Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet...