Woodbridge Train Derailment

Date: February 6, 1951 • Location: Woodbridge, United States

A train derailed while crossing a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, causing 85 deaths.

On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85 passengers. It remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S. derailment since 1918 and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster in U.S. history.