A non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and education of railroad history in Western New York State, the Province of Ontario, and neighboring regions. 

Just a week before Christmas, in the winter of 1867, an express train of
the Buffalo & Erie Railroad was traveling towards Buffalo from
Cleveland, filled with 200 passengers -- men, women, children and
babies. Shortly after 3 p.m., as the express passed through the tiny
village of Angola in Western New York, it derailed and fell from the
track. Horrifically, the train was atop a high bridge over Big Sister
Creek when it tumbled off the tracks. In the ensuing disaster, a fiery
inferno at the bottom of the gorge, some 50 people lost their lives --
and many more were injured. Learn the full story of the "Angola Horror"
train wreck -- including never-before-revealed details of the disaster
-- at an upcoming lecture by Charity A. Vogel, Ph.D, on May 9 at 7 p.m.

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