Starting in 1910 the Interstate Commerce Commission required railroads to report accidents, which the ICC then investigated. The ICC was abolished in 1994 and some functions were transferred to the Department of Transportation (DOT). Reports of investigations from 1911-1993 are on the DOT site at _http://dotlibrary1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?toc&ds=0_ (http://dotlibrary1.specialcollection.net/scripts/ws.dll?toc&ds=0) . Click on the year, then on the name of the railroad. The ones I've looked at don't have people's names, but are good descriptions of what happened. Local newspapers are often the best source of info on railroad accidents. For example, digitized copies of many years of the Fitchburg [MA] Sentinel are on Ancestry.com. I've found that when searching these Ancestry newspaper databases, you get better results if you do not put the person's name where it asks for the name, but instead put the name in quotation marks in the Keyword box. Robin in Maryland **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)