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The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters
By Michele, Andy, MelHistory
The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters episodes
- Episode 062.2: (Water) PS General Slocum - Part 2Part 2 of 2: Covering the investigation, litigation and our commentary of this disaster.On June 15, 1904, General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area's worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is the worst maritime disaster in the city's history, and the second worst maritime disaster on United States waterways.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 4 min
- Episode 062.1: (Water) PS General Slocum - Part 1On June 15, 1904, General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died. The General Slocum disaster was the New York area's worst disaster in terms of loss of life until the September 11, 2001 attacks. It is the worst maritime disaster in the city's history, and the second worst maritime disaster on United States waterways.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent51 min
- Episode 061: (Tech) *REMAKE* The Radium GirlsThis is a complete new release of The Radium Girls which we covered in episode 4. If you listened to that short, definitely listen to this complete newly researched episode!The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials with self-luminous paint. Painting was done by women at three different sites in the United States, and the term now applies to the women working at the facilities: the first, a United States Radium factory in Orange, New Jersey, beginning around 1917; the facility at Ottawa, Illinois, beginning in the early 1920s; and a third facility in Waterbury, Connecticut.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent2 hr 1 min
- Episode 060: (Air) Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a scheduled flight along the West Coast of the United States, from Los Angeles, California, to San Francisco. On December 7, 1987, the British Aerospace 146-200A, registration N350PS, crashed in San Luis Obispo County near Cayucos, after being hijacked by a passenger.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee as well as Chris Haile.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 43 min
- Episode 059: (Road) Schoharie Limousine CrashIn the early afternoon of October 6, 2018, a stretch limousine crashed at the junction of New York state routes 30 and 30A north of Schoharie, 30 miles (48 km) west of Albany, killing 20: the driver, all 17 passengers, and two pedestrians who were in a nearby parking lot.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 27 min
- Episode 058: (Rail) 2013 Casselton Train DerailmentOn December 30, 2013, at 2:10 p.m. CST, a westbound BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) train with 112 cars loaded with grain derailed 13 cars near Casselton, North Dakota. The first car that derailed (the 45th car) fouled the adjacent track. At 2:11 p.m. an eastbound BNSF train with 104 tank cars loaded with petroleum crude oil, struck the derailed car that was fouling the track and derailed two head-end locomotives, a buffer car, and 20 cars loaded with crude oil. After the collision, about 476,000 gallons of crude oil were released and burned. No injuries were reported by residents or either of the train crews.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals).Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 57 min
- Episode 056: (Rail) Moorgate Tube DisasterThe Moorgate tube crash occurred on February 28, 1975 at 8:46 am on the London Underground's Northern City Line; 43 people died and 74 were injured after a train failed to stop at the line's southern terminus, Moorgate station, and crashed into its end wall. It is considered the worst peacetime accident on the London Underground. No fault was found with the train, and the inquiry by the Department of the Environment concluded that the accident was caused by the actions of Leslie Newson, the 56-year-old driver.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals).Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 51 min
- Episode 054: (Rail) In the NewsThis is The Cornfield Meet's first unedited release of their podcast which was recorded July 3, 2020 in Medina, Ohio (outside no less). Andy and Michele discuss several news train derailments that have happened lately with their spin of humor. We hope everyone enjoys this episode and more may follow in the future if it is a success!This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by Michele and Andy Sargent (aka Sargent Signals).Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 11 min
- Episode 053.3: (Water/Road) The Skyway Bridge Collapse Part 3Part 3 of 3 episodes.On the morning of May 9, 1980, a sudden, violent storm rolled into the bay and a freighter, the Summit Venture, collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Six cars, a pickup truck, and a Greyhound passenger bus full of Tuskeegee, Alabama students, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and a baby, fell from the broken bridge and plunged 150 feet into the water to their deaths. Just one person out of the 36 who went into the water that day survived.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by two amateur disaster historians, Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 51 min
- Episode 053.2: (Water/Road) The Skyway Bridge Collapse Part 2Part 2 of 3 episodes.On the morning of May 9, 1980, a sudden, violent storm rolled into the bay and a freighter, the Summit Venture, collided with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Six cars, a pickup truck, and a Greyhound passenger bus full of Tuskeegee, Alabama students, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers and a baby, fell from the broken bridge and plunged 150 feet into the water to their deaths. Just one person out of the 36 who went into the water that day survived.This episode of The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters podcast is brought to you by two amateur disaster historians, Michele Sargent and Mel Bee.Email: [email protected]Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/thecornfieldmeetFacebook: http://facebook.com/thecornfieldmeetTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/cornfieldmeetInstagram: http://www.instagram.com/thecornfieldmeetPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/thecornfieldmeet© Theme music created by Michele Sargent1 hr 41 min
About The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters
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Transportation disasters occurred every day across the world. Most disasters are learned from which makes travel safer for everyone today. We tell the story of these disasters so they will not be forgotten.
A "cornfield meet" is an old term used where two steam trains collide head-on in a field out in the country. We use this term to represent the meeting of transportation with a disaster.
Climb aboard with your host Michele Sargent and co-hosts Andy Sargent (Sargent Signals) or Mel Bee as they take you through the history of accidents in transportation (rail, air, water, and road) on this weekly podcast!
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