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March 12 in CNR History


 

March 12, 1857 The locomotive, mail car and two first class coaches of a Great Western Railway train from Toronto to Hamilton, Ontario plunges 60 feet into the frozen Desjardins Canal after the bridge collapses. Seventy persons die from trauma, drowning, or exposure. Only 20 passengers survive. (Some sources say 59 people killed in total.)


Mark Tomlonson