Train Accident, 1929 | Dunellen Past Present

Train accident involving a passenger train and freight train when there was a train roundhouse near Art Color, December 31,1929. “Train Wrecks from the Movietone Outtakes Collection”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWShO35lfzY

Phil Mulligan commented regarding this accident on Railway Preservation News: “A Reading freight train and a CNJ passenger train at Dunellen NJ on the CNJ. That was four track territory on the CNJ and Jersey City – Philadelphia trains (freight and passenger) ran on a pool basis based on mileage, about two Reading to one Central. B&O Royal Blue service also used these tracks. Today this is on NJT’s Raritan Valley Line.

The derailment affects the Westward tracks; It’s not a rear-end collision; it appears the freight train had derailed and struck the passenger cars on a siding, and the wreckage does not seem to foul either of the Eastward tracks. Of course they may have already cleaned that part up. The roundhouse is CNJ’s Dunellen Enginehouse. Some suburban trains to Jersey City originated at Dunellen; hence the enginehouse and the cars laying over.

The overturned engine is a RDG M1 2-8-2, preferred power for merchandise freight. The first two trains passing are CNJ with 4-6-0’s, the third is RDG with G-1-s-a 4-6-2 105, the first of its class and undoubtedly on a JC-Philadelphia train.”

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