Ashtabula Train Disaster of 1876 — Travel 88

7:30 PM, December 28, 1876, just south of downtown Ashtabula, Ohio. That’s the moment of one of the worst train disasters in American history took place. To understand how and why it happened, you have to go back 13years. In 1863, Amasa Stone, President of the Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula (CP&A) Railroad , decided that […]

Ashtabula Train Disaster of 1876 — Travel 88