Catastrophe at Custer Creek

In "Catastrophe at Custer Creek," historian Ian Campbell Wilson recounts Montana’s worst passenger rail disaster, tracing the final journey of westbound Olympian No.15 from its midnight Chicago departure in June 1938 to its tragic plunge a day later into the roaring, frigid waters of Custer Creek, near Miles City. The nighttime wreck killed forty-nine people and injured another seventy-five, the worst train accident in Montana history.