The Bagley train wreck (also known as the Great Salt Lake wreck) occurred in Utah, United States, on the morning of Sunday December 31, 1944. The crash killed 50 (initially reported as 48), including over 35 military personnel, and injured 81. Pacific Limited The wreck involved Southern Pacific's Pacific Limited as it crossed the Great Salt Lake on the Lucin Cutoff. It had departed from Chicago at 10 a.m. the prior Friday (Dec 29), bound for San Francisco and normally traveled in one long section, but on this occasion it was split into two, with the passenger train running ahead of the mail express. Early that morning an unusually long and heavy freight train developed problems (unofficially a hot box) whilst traveling west from Ogden. This required First 21, the first section of the Pacific Limited comprising 18 cars headed by SP GS-3 No. 4425, to stop and then proceed with caution. Second 21, the second section comprising 20 cars headed by SP Mt-4 No. 4361, apparently unaware of the problems ahead, continued at full speed. First 21 departed Ogden at 4:38 a.m. (38 minutes after its scheduled departure) and had slowed to at the time of the collision, preparing to stop in response to the flagman's signals from the preceding freight train. Second 21 departed Ogden at 4:50 a.m. (50 minutes late) and passed two stop signals before the collision. At Bagley, a siding west of Ogden, at 5:14 a.m. in thick fog, the Second 21 mail express train, moving at , crashed into the Pullman car at the back of the First 21 passenger train. The Ogden Standard-Examiner reported "The force of the impact sent another sleeping car smashing through the dining car and farther ahead slammed one coach into the wooden coach ahead of it. Cars of the mail express section piled up crossways of the track behind the engine, some of them sliding down the causeway embankment into water. Most of the dead were taken from the rear Pullman car and from the telescoped coach." Several cars in First 21 telescoped: the thirteenth into the twelfth, the sixteenth into the fifteenth, and the locomotive of Second 21 into the eighteenth. The twelfth, fifteenth, and eighteenth cars of First 21 were demolished, and the locomotive and first eleven cars of Second 21 were derailed. Aftermath and investigation At the site of the crash, the tracks run along