In a time where people are trying to erase a lot of our history, it is moving and humbling to see someone trying to preserve these events. Thank you Mr General. Yes, these were real people!

The Brunners were our family...they are buried in Chicago. Such a sad event. Thank you for the film.

Thank you for keeping the memory of this disaster alive and of course remembering the names of those who died . Greetings from Derbyshire, England.

If Porter Oscar J. Daniels sacrificed himself like he did in combat, he would have a posthumous Medal Of Honor. He does in my book.

Great video, John. Really professional lighting, sound recording, videography, and editing. It was masterful. BTW, I was a loco engineer for 39 years on the CNW/UP and retired in late 2013. I have also made video compilations no where near as good as yours, and I know a little bit about video editing. You did a fantastic job.

this was a very well done video project. i would be interested if it had ever been entered into a film fest? as a film /video grad my self i can appreciate all the contributions by historians , first and second hand accounts handed down by relatives who still inhabit the area and the eloquent narration by all who were interviewed for this project. being from this area my self i had always herd about the train wreck and had seen a photo but never knew any of the details of what actually happened ..until i watched this video...great job John General !.

Thank you John General for this enlightening story of a terrible train wreck that happened nearly 95 years ago. I passed this story to my son who recently lived in Easton, PA and worked in central New Jersey.

Beautifully done - more people should see this.

This video is a beautifully made memorial to those killed, hurt and affected by such a terrible tragedy.

Very professionally done

How incredibly awful! Those poor, poor people. I can't imagine what they and the rescuers went through. Thank you for this. I've never heard of this disaster.

Truly sad the loss of life .The production was very detailed and very informative.Well done.

Two others not on the list were Elizabeth Wilgermein’s daughters Irene (age 12), and Catherine (age 15). I just came across their graves doing research for another KZfaq channel which led me to your video.

I lived in Hackettstown for years and never knew about this. Well done video.

Grew up in Port Murray (now live in Long Valley) and had no idea. I pass the pheasant farm and these tracks once per week on my way to my dads and NEVER knew. cool little doc. Good work

A dreadful, dreadful accident, clearly ghastly to remember or recount. It is an event to remember and has been done so here in a sensitive, respectful way. It’s well made and well told, thank you.

Very well put together, a great piece of work. It is always good to remember any history so as to not forget those who were part of it. We must never forget….

Excellent and professional documentary of a tragic event.

Imagine being in such agonizing pain getting steamed alive they were begging to be killed..? That line was always meant to be brought back in commuter service when many city residents made a mass exodus to the Poconos.To this day it still hasn’t and never will again,so everyone is bound to riding the bus daily.To this day i still hear someone jokingly say they’re almost done working on the new Lackawanna rail line...

very good and well done......I lived in Washington most of my life and I don't remember anyone talking about this wreck....thank you for the history

Well done. Thank you for taking so much care with this film.

Thank you for sharing this well made documentary , what a treasure .

Fantastic documentary about this horrible train wreck.

This video is so important. Thank you.

This was well put together. A wonderful memorial for those involved.

My mother was one year old when this tragedy happened. Dad wasn’t born yet, but my aunt, his sister was age six, and all four grandparents were living. All lived in New York, Manhattan. At that time, most of New Jersey was rural, the middle of nowhere with farms sparsely arranged between small villages.

Wow! I ran across your documentary while looking at train videos. I had heard about this wreck, but very little available (except Wikipedia) on this DL&W wreck. Thank you for keeping alive this piece of history and also recognizing the valiant and selfless efforts of Pullman Porter Oscar Daniels.

Hi John, I came across this documentary while searching for my next subject. This is superbly done! I certainly don't need to tackle this subject now. Great work!

Excellently and sensitively researched, remembered and told. Just a sidenote: Oscar Daniels, the hero porter who saved so many lives by racing thru his train car to shut the door, to block steam, sacrificing himself: from his photo he appears partly African-American. He heroically sacrificed himself, in an era often racist, to save white German-Americans.

Very well done

Great story it was done really well

Great video, I live near by. Great to hear more info on it.

Well done. I know the area very well, having lived down the road. I never knew about this!

>Road crew utterly screws up "No one was to blame. It was an act of Providence!" EDIT: Also, wonderful documentary. It's scandalous that this isn't more widely known.

Remembering the victims on this anniversary of the crash.

These terrible things still happen! Life can be way too short for some.....

Nice documentary

How sad…..:(

Talk about having PTSD! I bet there were a LOT of rescuers, not to mention surviving victims, who had PTSD.

I worked as shop foreman in this industrial green house and we grew plants year round. There were at the time 5 huge boilers and 4 smaller ones thought out the 44 acres of green house. I had a fellow that worked under me , Big strong fellow but not the brightest. Anyway I left that job for a new one and the company put him to work with a team upgrades in the place. The one section of the green house had two huge boiler pipes runs that where the main header supplies to branch off from ,, This fellow thought these pipes were shut down and he started removing bolts for a cap plug and this poor guy was steamed, he died a day later. I am so lucky not to have been there when this happened. I haven't even thought about it for years. Very sad. The hospital couldn't give him more pain meds or it would have killed him out rite, Worst pain I think anyone can go thru. RIP.

Does anybody know what engine was involved in this like what railroad it was from?

You have to do a video on the NS Savannah, soon before she is sunk or scraped.

First of all this was well done. Second were you ever able to find any descendants of survivors or deceased from this accident and speak with them

You'd be amazed at what you don't know.

After the wreck and because of his heroism, the Pullman Company named a 16-1 sleeper as "Oscar J. Daniels" ... the only Pullman car named after a black man ... even though thee Pullman Company hired many black men as car porters and attendants.

0_0 l live in Scranton PA...I never heard about this!

Like a steam locomotive rolling down the track, they're gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring them back.

What rail line was this?

Hey Andy Parke, I'm your granddaughter, Katherine, and I have a son. My brother has a daughter. You're a great grandfather of 2 and a grandfather of 2. Thanks for the nose btw, I wonder if I have your feet too, mine look just like Gary's, my father.

New Jersey had a bad train accident record.

12:09 I... Don't like how her eyes almost look blacked out in that photo😰

Trains don't wreck sitting still , nor do they jump good tracks going 25 mile a hour - speed is the most like cause

Is Alfred still alive? As of December 2021?

The devils way out _Steamed alive_

"The deadliest disaster in Warren county history." Um, probably the only disaster in Warren county history. What kind of trash did I stumble upon?

It’s pathetic that they never blamed anybody for it. It was providence. Which is a lie the devil. Somebody was to blame. In Jesus/God will hold them accountable.

Well put together but you need to tone down the horror. It distracts from the story. You dont want to hit your audience over the head with a shovel , which is what you do here. Pay the nasty stuff its due and move on. You don't see airline disaster docs detailing the injuries. Just a tip. Good job overall.