Podcasts by The Cornfield Meet: Transportation Disasters
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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Episode 070.2: (Water) The Edmund Fitzgerald - Part 2 from 2021-07-16T00:00
Part 2 of 2.
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When lau...
Episode 070.1 - (Water) The Edmund Fitzgerald - Part 1 from 2021-06-28T00:00
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958,...
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Episode 069.2: (Rail) The Angola Horror - Part 2 from 2021-05-14T00:00
The Angola Horror train wreck occurred on December 18, 1867, just after 3 PM when the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a bridge, slid down into...
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Episode 069.1: (Rail) The Angola Horror - Part 1 from 2021-03-30T00:00
Part 1 of 2.
The Angola Horror train wreck occurred on December 18, 1867, just after 3 PM when the last coach of the Buffalo-bound New York Express of the Lake Shore Railway derailed at a ...
Episode 068.2: (Road) The Cypress Freeway I-880 - Part 2 from 2021-02-18T00:00
Part 2 of 2.
The collapse of the Cypress Freeway (I-880) occurred during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on California’s Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The earthquake...
Episode 068.1: (Road) The Cypress Freeway I-880 - Part 1 from 2021-02-15T00:00
Part 1 of 2.
The collapse of the Cypress Freeway (I-880) occurred during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake on California’s Central Coast on October 17 at 5:04 p.m. local time. The earthquake...
Episode 067.2: (Road) The Silver Bridge - Part 2 from 2021-02-06T00:00
Part 2 of 2.
The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, conn...
Episode 067.1: (Road) The Silver Bridge - Part 1 from 2021-02-01T00:00
Part 1 of 2.
The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, conn...
Episode 066.2: (Rail) *REMAKE* The Ashtabula Horror - Part 2 from 2021-01-23T00:00
Part 2 of 2.
The Ashtabula Horror was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. A train of the Lake Shor...
Episode 066.1: (Rail) *REMAKE* The Ashtabula Horror - Part 1 from 2021-01-05T00:00
The Ashtabula Horror was the failure of a bridge over the Ashtabula River near the town of Ashtabula, Ohio, in the United States on December 29, 1876. A train of the Lake Shore and Michigan Souther...
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Episode 065: (Air) TACA Flight 110 Miraclesode from 2020-12-23T00:00
TACA Flight 110 was an international scheduled airline flight operated by TACA Airlines, traveling from Belize to New Orleans. On May 24, 1988, the Boeing 737-300 lost power in both engines, but it...
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Episode 064.2: (Air) Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 Mystery - Part 2 from 2020-12-05T00:00
Part 2 of 2
Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Paraguay to the United States. On January 1, 1985, while descending towards La Paz, Bolivia, for a schedu...
Episode 064.1: (Air) Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 Mystery - Part 1 from 2020-11-25T00:00
Part 1 of 2
Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 was a scheduled international flight from Paraguay to the United States. On January 1, 1985, while descending towards La Paz, Bolivia, for a schedu...
Episode 063: (Rail) In The News II - Uncut from 2020-11-01T00:00
Andy and Michele discuss what is the latest in the news with rail disasters which include things such as . Listen to them talk over these events with their own spin of ideas and sometimes humor!
Episode 062.2: (Water) PS General Slocum - Part 2 from 2020-10-13T00:00
Part 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 estima...
Episode 062.1: (Water) PS General Slocum - Part 1 from 2020-09-29T00:00
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 w...
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Episode 061: (Tech) *REMAKE* The Radium Girls from 2020-09-16T00:00
This 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 Gir...
Episode 060: (Air) Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 from 2020-08-22T00:00
Pacific 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 1...
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Episode 059: (Road) Schoharie Limousine Crash from 2020-08-11T00:00
In 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 drive...
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Episode 058: (Rail) 2013 Casselton Train Derailment from 2020-08-02T00:00
On 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...
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Episode 057: (Water) The SS Daniel J. Morrell from 2020-07-27T21:13:58
The SS Daniel J. Morrell was a 603-foot (184 m) Great Lakes freighter that broke up in a strong storm on Lake Huron on November 29, 1966, taking with it 28 of her 29 crewmen. The freighter was used...
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Episode 056: (Rail) Moorgate Tube Disaster from 2020-07-19T00:00
The 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 southe...
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Episode 055: (Air) Continental Express Flight 2574 from 2020-07-11T00:00
Continental Express Flight 2574 (Jetlink 2574) was a scheduled domestic passenger airline flight operated by Britt Airways from Laredo, Texas to Houston, Texas. On September 11, 1991, it crashed wh...
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Episode 054: (Rail) In the News from 2020-07-06T20:00:11
This 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...
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Episode 053.3: (Water/Road) The Skyway Bridge Collapse Part 3 from 2020-06-28T00:00
Part 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 ...
Episode 053.2: (Water/Road) The Skyway Bridge Collapse Part 2 from 2020-06-13T00:00
Part 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 ...
Episode 053.1: (Water/Road) The Skyway Bridge Collapse Part 1 from 2020-06-05T00:00
Part 1 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 ...
Episode 052: (Rail) 1996 Cajon Pass Runaway Train from 2020-06-01T00:00
In the early morning of February 1, 1996, an Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (ATSF) freight train, en route from Barstow to Los Angeles, California was traveling westbound on the ATS...
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Episode 051: (Air) Asiana Flight 214 from 2020-05-26T00:00
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea, to San Francisco International Airport in the United States. On ...
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Episode 050: (Water) The SS Carl D. Bradley from 2020-05-09T00:00
The SS Carl D. Bradley was a self-unloading Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Michigan storm on November 18, 1958. Of the 35 crew members, 33 died in the sinking. 23 were from the port town...
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Episode 049: (Rail) The World's Most Unusual Train Wrecks from 2020-05-01T00:00
There have been some very odd things that have caused train derailment and wrecks throughout history: an invention to make a train walk goes up in smoke, stealing a train for a joyride, a work mish...
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Episode 048: (Air) Lion Air Flight 610 from 2020-04-26T00:00
Lion Air Flight 610 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by the Indonesian airline Lion Air from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Jakarta to Depati Amir Airport in Pangkal Pinang. On 29 ...
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Episode 047: (Rail/Road) 1993 Amtrak/Tanker Truck Explosion from 2020-04-18T00:00
On March 17, 1993, the Amtrak Silver Star passenger train was traveling at 60 mph (96 kmph) when it saw something on the tracks that made the engineers blood run cold. He could not stop his train i...
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Episode 046: (Air) TWA Flight 128 With Chris Haile from 2020-04-12T00:00
TWA Flight 128 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines passenger flight from Los Angeles to Boston, with intermediate stops in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. On November 20, 1967, Flight 128, on...
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Episode 045: (Water) 1946 Texas City Chain Reaction from 2020-04-04T00:00
The Texas City Chain Reaction disaster was an industrial accident that occurred April 16, 1947, in the Port of Texas City, Texas, at Galveston Bay. A mid-morning fire started on board the French-re...
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Episode 044: (Rail) The Glenbrook Rail Accident from 2020-03-29T00:00
The Glenbrook Rail accident occurred at 8.22am on Thursday 2 December 1999 when a CityRail electric interurban train collided with the rear of the long-haul Perth-to-Sydney Indian-Pacific passenger...
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Episode 043: (Water) The SS El Faro Part 2 from 2020-03-21T00:00
Part 2: The Finding and Investigation
SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 b...
Episode 042: (Nature) The Great Blizzard Of 1978 from 2020-03-15T00:00
On January 26, 1978, a severe blizzard resulted when a relatively rare merger of two distinct upper level waves (one over Texas and one over the Northern Plains)occurred that caused an explosive in...
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Episode 041: (Rail) 2017 Washington Train Derailment from 2020-03-07T00:00
Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501 derailed near DuPont, Washington, US, on December 18, 2017 because Sound Transit failed to take steps to mitigate a curve at the accident location, and inadequat...
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Episode 040: (Water) The SS El Faro Part 1 from 2020-02-29T00:00
Part 1: The Disaster
SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuildin...
Episode 039: (Rail) Quintinshill from 2020-02-23T00:00
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on May 22, 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It resulted in the death...
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Episode 038: (Natural) Particularly Dangerous Cornfield Crossover from 2020-02-10T00:00
The Cornfield Meet presents a crossover episode with Particularly Dangerous Situation! Spend some time with Michele, Bre and Brett as a blizzard, volcanic eruption and the poisoning of a town is d...
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Episode 037: (Air) Northwest Airlines Flight 255 from 2020-02-02T00:00
Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed shortly after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport on August 16, 1987, at about 8:46 p.m. EDT, killing all six crew members an...
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Episode 036: (Rail) Austrailan Granville Train Smash from 2020-01-26T00:00
The Australian Granville Rail Smash occurred on Tuesday, January 18, 1977, at Granville, New South Wales, a western suburb of Sydney, when a crowded commuter train derailed, running into the suppor...
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Episode 035: (Air) Qantas Flight 72 from 2020-01-19T00:00
On October 7, 2008, an Airbus A330-300 Qantas Flight 72, suffered a rapid loss of altitude in two sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres causing serious injuries while 80 nautical miles (150 km;...
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Episode 034: (Rail) The Mississauga Miracle Of 1979 from 2020-01-08T00:00
The Mississauga train derailment of 1979, also known as the Mississauga Miracle occurred on Saturday, November 10, 1979, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, when a 106-car CP Rail freight train carryi...
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Episode 033: (Water) The SS Morro Castle from 2020-01-03T00:00
The SS Morro Castle was an ocean liner of the 1930s that was built for the Ward Line for voyages between New York City and Havana, Cuba. The ship was named for the Morro Castle fortress that guards...
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Episode 032: (Rail) Big Bayou Canot Rail Accident from 2019-12-29T00:00
The Big Bayou Canot Rail Accident was the derailing of an Amtrak train on the CSXT Big Bayou Canot bridge in southwestern Alabama, United States, on September 22, 1993. It was caused by displacemen...
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Episode 031: (Air) British Airways Flight 9 from 2019-12-21T00:00
On 24 June 1982, British Airways Flight 9 was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a Boeing 747-200. The aircraft flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung (approxi...
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Episode 030: (Tech) Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion of 1944 from 2019-12-14T00:00
The Cleveland East Ohio Gas Explosion occurred on the afternoon of Friday, October 20, 1944. The resulting gas leak, explosion and fires killed 130 people and destroyed a one-square-mile area of th...
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Episode 029: (Road) 2015 Michigan I-94 Pileup from 2019-12-07T00:00
On January 9th, 2015, near Kalamazoo, Michigan, a pile-up involving 193 vehicles occurred in snowy conditions. One truck was carrying 44,000 pounds of hazardous material causing an evacuation in a ...
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Episode 028: (Rail) The Poop Train of 2018 from 2019-11-29T00:00
In late January 2018, a train carrying about 10 million pounds of human excrement from New York City stopped in the small town of Parrish, Louisiana with 982 residents. From the day it got there, r...
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Episode 027: (Water) The SS Marine Electric from 2019-11-23T00:00
On February 12, 1983 the SS Marine Electric sank about 30 miles off the coast of Virginia, in 130 feet of water. Thirty-one of the 34 crewmembers were killed; the three survivors endured 90 minutes...
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Episode 026: (Rail) 1940 Cuyahoga Falls Doodlebug Disaster from 2019-11-17T00:00
The doodlebug disaster was a railway accident that occurred on July 31, 1940, in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, in the United States. A Pennsylvania Railroad, gasoline-powered "doodlebug" rail-car collided ...
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Episode 025: (Air) Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 from 2019-11-11T00:00
Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 was an Ansett New Zealand scheduled passenger transport flight from Auckland Airport to Palmerston North. On June 9, 1995, the de Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft flyi...
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Episode 024: (Rail) The Ufa Train Disaster from 2019-11-02T00:00
The Ufa train disaster was a railway accident that occurred on June 4, 1989, in Iglinsky District, Bashkir ASSR, Soviet Union, when an explosion killed 575 people and injured 800 more. It is the de...
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Episode 023: (Air) Haunting of Eastern Flight 401 from 2019-10-27T00:00
On December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401, a Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar, crashed into the Florida Everglades, causing 101 fatalities. The pilots and the flight engineer, two of 10 flight at...
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Episode 022: (Road) The Curse of the Spyder from 2019-10-18T00:00
James Byron Dean (1931 – 1955) was an American actor from Indiana. He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement. He purchased a 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder whi...
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Episode 021: (Water) The Carroll A Deering Ghosts from 2019-10-10T00:00
The Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1921 with the crew nowhere to be found. The Deering is one of the most w...
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Episode 020: (Rail) Statesville's Spectral Train from 2019-10-04T00:00
The Bostian Bridge train wreck occurred on August 27, 1891, just west of Statesville, North Carolina, USA. The accident took the lives of 23 people, making it one of the worst railroad disasters in...
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Episode 019: (Air) Colgan Air Flight 3407 from 2019-09-29T00:00
Colgan Air Flight 3407, marketed as Continental Connection under a codeshare agreement with Continental Airlines, was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, whi...
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Episode 018: (Rail) Washington Metro Train Collison from 2019-09-23T19:57:55
During the afternoon rush hour of June 22, 2009, a subway train-on-train collision occurred between two southbound Red Line Washington Metro trains in Northeast, Washington, D.C., United States. A ...
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Episode 017: (Air) American Airlines Flight 191 from 2019-09-16T20:00:05
American Airlines Flight 191 was a regularly scheduled passenger flight operated by American Airlines from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, to Los Angeles International Airport in...
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Episode 016: (Rail) The Great Train Wreck of 1918 from 2019-09-09T23:00:05
The Great Train Wreck of 1918 occurred on July 9, 1918, in Nashville, Tennessee. Two passenger trains, operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway ("NC&StL"), collided head-on, cos...
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Episode 015: (Rail) CSX 8888 - The Crazy Eights Incident from 2019-08-22T00:00
The CSX 8888 incident, also known as the Crazy Eights incident, was an incident involving a CSX Transportation freight train in the U.S. state of Ohio on May 15, 2001. Locomotive #8888, an EMD SD40...
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Episode 014: (Air) Air Canada Flight 143 from 2019-08-13T00:00
Air Canada Flight 143 was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet (12,000 m), midway throug...
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Episode 013: (Rail) The Lac Megantic Rail Disaster from 2019-08-07T00:00
The Lac-Mégantic rail disaster occurred in the town of Lac-Mégantic, in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, at approximately 01:15 EDT, on July 6, 2013, when an unattended 74-car freigh...
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Episode 012: (Air) The Apollo-Soyuz Incident from 2019-08-01T00:00
The first international joint manned space mission between the US and USSR, called Apollo-Soyuz (or Soyuz-Apollo in Russia) which was the first docking between two spacecraft launched from differen...
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Episode 011: (Rail) The San Bernardino Train Disaster from 2019-07-23T00:00
The San Bernardino train disaster, sometimes known as the Duffy Street incident, was a combination of two separate but related incidents that occurred in San Bernardino, California, United States: ...
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Episode 010: (Tech) The Great Molasses Flood from 2019-07-13T00:00
The Great Molasses Flood, occurred on January 15, 1919 in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. A large storage tank burst, filled with 2,300,000 gallons of molasses, and a wave of m...
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Episode 009: (Tech) The Beer Flood from 2019-07-08T00:00
The London Beer Flood happened on October 17, 1814 in the parish of St. Giles, London, England. At the Meux and Company Brewery in Tottenham Court Road, a huge vat of beer ruptured, causing other v...
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Episode 008: (Tech) The Pittsburgh Gasometer Explosion from 2019-07-01T00:00
A huge cylindrical gasometer – the largest in the world at that time – located in the heart of the industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, developed a leak. On the morning of November 14, 19...
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Episode 007: (Rail) The Graniteville Train Crash from 2019-06-25T00:00
The Graniteville train crash was an American rail disaster that occurred on January 6, 2005, in Graniteville, South Carolina. At roughly 2:40 am EST, two Norfolk Southern trains collided near the A...
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Episode 006: (Rail) The Sunshine Rail Disaster from 2019-06-23T22:28:32
The Cornfield Meet presents The Sunshine Rail Disaster by Mr. & Mrs. Sargent Signals.
The Sunshine rail disaster (also known as Braybrook) occurred on April 20, 1908 at the junction at Su...
Episode 005: (Tech) The Lake Peigneur Drilling Disaster from 2019-06-21T22:45:13
The Cornfield Meet: Technology Disaster's Edition presents the Lake Peigneur Drilling Accident by Michele Sargent.
In 1980, Lake Peigneur was an unremarkable body of water. The freshwater ...
Episode 004: (Tech) The Radium Girls from 2019-06-16T00:37:59
The Cornfield Meet: Technology Disaster's Edition presents The Radium Girls by Michele Sargent.
*BONUS TRACK*
The Radium Girls were female factory workers who contracted radiation...
Episode 003: (Rail) The Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Disaster from 2019-06-13T00:00
The Cornfield Meet presents The Harrow and Wealdstone Rail Disaster by Mr. & Mrs. Sargent Signals.
The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash was a three-train collision at Harrow and Wealdstone...
Episode 002: (Rail) The Ashtabula Horror from 2019-06-08T17:50:59
This is the Ashtabula Horror story that took place in Ohio on December 29th, 1876 killing 159 people when they faced fire and ice during a bridge collapse. It was the worst rail disaster until the...
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Episode 001.2: (Rail) Rail Disaster Firsts - Part 2 from 2019-06-08T17:44:34
Part 2 ofrail disaster first's.
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Episode 001.1: (Rail) Rail Disaster Firsts - Part 1 from 2019-06-02T20:16:09
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Episode 000: (Rail) The Cornfield Meet Introduction from 2018-12-31T00:00
This is the introductions of The Cornfield Meet podcast featuring Sargent Signals (Andy) and Mrs. Sargent Signals (Michele). Lot's of banter in this episode!
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