Big hooks is the nearly universal nickname for railroad wrecking cranes, powerful machines capable of many tasks ...

A truck versus train accident resulted in no major injuries but a lot of engineering, time and money to pull the engine back on the tracks for repair.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Aug. 15. The most terrible wreck in the history of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad occurred about 5 A. M. to-day at Pierson, twenty-nine miles north of Grand Rapids.

Discover the details of a 1908 railroad accident in Alvordton, involving a Wabash Railroad freight train and its aftermath.