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The bridge's wooden truss gave way and 92 people fell
In this episode, we follow the night the Pacific Express went down at Ashtabula and the long arc of a railroad corridor stitched together piece by piece. We outline the decisions, workarounds, and local confrontations that built the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern-so how did a fragile structure hold so much for so long?
Person: Pacific Express
Date: December 29, 1876
Location: Ashtabula River bridge, northeastern Ohio
Event: Bridge collapse carrying passenger cars into a frozen gorge
Company: Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
- Four small railroads were stitched into a corridor connecting Buffalo to Chicago through legal workarounds and private actions.
- Judge Stanfield bought and held right-of-way land personally, leasing it back to a railroad to bypass charter restrictions.
- The Erie gauge war forced relaying track to standard gauge, ending a local transfer economy and enabling through service.
- The Lake Shore and Michigan Southern operated as a single corridor in practice for a decade before legally merging on April 6, 1869.
- The Ashtabula bridge had carried thousands of crossings for eleven years before failing and sending passenger cars into the frozen gorge.
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