out of a siding for shunting before the passenger train arrived. 28 killed, 110 injured. September 6 – United States – 1943 Frankford Junction train wreck: 79 people are killed and 117 injured when the Pennsylvania Railroad's Congressional Limited derails in Kensington, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when a journal box on one of the cars overheats (hot box), ultimately causing an axle to snap. The accident occurred as the signalman at Frankford Junction was telephoning the next tower to stop the train. September 7 – United States – The locomotive boiler on an Erie Railroad passenger train explodes at Port Jervis, New York. As nobody was killed, not even the engine crew, this might not be considered notable except that it happened 30 minutes before a similar, and fatal, accident in the same state. September 7 – United States – The boiler on New York Central Railroad's NYC Hudson locomotive No. 5450 explodes as the train runs through Canastota, New York while hauling the 20th Century Limited from Chicago to New York. Of the train's 17 cars carrying 173 passengers, 10 cars derail, but only the three enginemen are killed, thanks in part to a trainman who runs forward to flag down an oncoming freight before it collides with the wreckage. October 6 – German-occupied France – Chalon-sur-Saône: An express for Lyon crashes into a derailed freight train, killing 21 people and injuring about 90. October 26 – Japan – According to a former Japan Railroad Ministry official confirmed report, during tn a freight car replaced in freight terminal and than collition with passing through another freight train, the standing freight car collision with four-cars passenger train on track line in Sakura River Bridge, Tsuchiura Station, Ibaraki Prefecture, resulting to death toll was 94 persons with 103 persons wounded. October 29 – Canada – The westbound Canadian Pacific Railway transcontinental passenger train has four cars derail approximately 64 km (40 miles) east of Chapleau, Ontario. The injuries to passengers and train crew are slight. November 14 – British India – The Indo-Ceylon Boat Mail derails at 3:30 am at Serndhanur, between Cuddalore Junction and Viluppuram, killing 39 people and injuring 88. December 16 – United States – Rennert railroad accident: 74 people are killed on the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad when the northbound Tamiami Champion hits the derailed rear three carriages of the southbound Tamiami Champion. 1944 January 3 – Spain –