This squeaky wheel gets all the attention...a little too late.
Derailment in Lyndonville.

A Canadian Pacific freight train met with disaster on this day in 1923. The freight train numbered forty cars, and one had a broken wheel.

The wheel failed, slicing through 200 feet of railroad ties, including those on the bridge just north of Lyndonville near Webster Flats. The broken ties sent the rear rail cars in every direction, derailing and destroying thirteen cars.

Some of them came to rest dangling over the edge of bridge abutments into the river below. Cargo, including cars, lumber, butter and eggs, was strewn throughout the area. With the engine in the lead and no passengers, there were no injuries.

Photo courtesy Images Of America: Lyndon by Harriet Fletcher Fisher.

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