Nudge Wrote:
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> There was a crossing around Chualar where an east man hit what they called a bus back then. It was just a semi trailer with slats for sides with wood benches.
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> I think there were over 38 pickers killed. It was after steam but the SP had some old Alcos or BLH engines on the point. That was the record in the USA for grade crossing deaths at one time.
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> If anyone out there can add to this, please do.>
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> Nudge

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1963 Chualar bus crash

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On September 17, 1963, a freight train collided with a bus (illegally converted flatbed truck) carrying 58 migrant farmworkers on a railroad crossing outside Chualar in the Salinas Valley, California, killing 32 people and injuring 25. It was the worst fatal vehicle accident in United States history, according to the National Safety Council. [en.wikipedia.org]

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