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November 1 - The Malbone Street Wreck occurs on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company (BRT) in New York City when an inexperienced motorman (pressed into service due to a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) drives one of the system's trains into a curve too quickly and derails the train.

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Julius Krutschnitt succeeds William Sproule as president of the Southern Pacific Company, parent company of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty succeeds Thomas George Shaughnessy as president of Canadian Pacific Railway.

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1918 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (427 words)
	This article lists events related to rail transport that occurred in 1918.
	June 22 - Hammond Circus Train Wreck, Hammond, Indiana, United States: The engineer of a circus train operating on the Michigan Central Railroad falls asleep while the train is in motion; he misses several signals and runs his train into the rear of a stopped troop train.
	Several of the passenger cars are completely destroyed in the collision and catch fire; 86 people die and 127 others are injured in the accident.

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