Off the Track
Bainbridge Republican, July 18, 1873
Last Monday evening, as the freight train going west left this station [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], the engine and a number of cars ran off the track, through the unpardonable negligence of a brakeman on a coal train which had just passed, who left the switch open. The engine ran some distance on the ties, and finally left the road bed, and plowed its way into a slight embankment for several feet. During the night the freight cars and tender were put on the track in proper shape, and backed up on the switch, and the track laid around the unfortunate engine, so that trains were not greatly delayed. Through the aid of a large force of men, the engine was placed on a track and started to Oneonta for repairs about noon on the following day. The employees of the train escaped unhurt. The name of the engine was "Tekaharawa," a powerful six-driver, recently placed upon the road. The damage done to this was slight, when we consider the position it was in. Superintendent Morse, of Oneonta, Master Mechanic Jones, General Trackmaster Dorsey, and conductor Taber were among the officials at the wreck.
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