I don’t even remember hearing about this accident and the 27 people who died. I lived in the Doylestown area, rode the Reading line to the same town, after all this happened. No way I’m that old.
There were other less used Reading lines and obviously this one that was closed. The line north of Lansdale was closed decades ago and I’m not sure about how much traffic the Hatboro line had.
How they can have a wreck with 27 people killed and I never heard about it years later is beyond belief. I heard about the Johnstown floods, the Delaware River Boy Scout mishap and most other major loss of life back in the old days.
Today if anyone dies the media is all over it. I guess back before smoke detectors, safe cars and the advances we have made accidental death was much more common.