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On the misty evening of February 6th, 1951, the residents along Fulton Street in Woodbridge, New Jersey heard a thundering crash. Opening their doors, they saw the deadliest train wreck in state history. The worst wreck in American history since 1918... This was the Broker, which came off the rails taking the lives of 85 people and injuring hundreds more, scarring many for life, both physically and emotionally… it was officially deemed as a simple case of excessive speed, but frustrated investigations failed to get to the bottom of things, leaving many questions unanswered.
We’re using the advanced technology of Unreal Engine 5 to piece this wreckage back together, bringing the history to life like never before. Guided by historians, exploring the wrecksite, and hearing the stories directly from survivors, we’re re-examining this 73 year old case, and hopefully answering these questions once and for all.
About a month ago, the beautiful small sailboat washed up on the shore at Sunset Beach in Cape May, New Jersey. Come along as we take a quick 5 minute tour of the boat, as well as the legendary Cape May "Ghost Tracks". The Ghost Tracks were railroad tracks from the Cape May Sand and Gravel Company as they mined sand from the beach here. All this just happens to be right by the wreck of the concrete ship "Atlantus".
July 2, 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the train derailment at Winslow Junction in Central New Jersey, at the northernmost tip of the Pine Barrens. The disaster occurred when two trains - one running late and one running early - switched places in the schedule, and the signal man in the tower mistook one for the other. The track was set for a different train, accidentally sending the highspeed "Midnight Flyer" from Camden bound for Atlantic City on the switch and tight curve toward Cape May, causing it to fly off the tracks. The wreck killed between 6 and 9 people, but ultimately led to inconclusive investigations and no new regulations.
As night fell on January 8th, 1884, two boys spotted the barquentine ELMINA stuck on the shoal off Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The alarm was raised at the life saving stations of Long Beach, Ship Bottom, and Beach Haven and every effort was made to save the crew of the stranded vessel, but some things went dreadfully wrong.
In this video, learn about this unknown wreck remembered only in the 1884 report of the New Jersey Life Saving Stations, and also learn a bit about how these old time stations would use the Lyle Gun to bring souls ashore.
Built as LST 510 in 1943, this ship is one of the last ships still in practical service from the Second World War and is now sailing as the M/V Cape Henlopen for the Cross Sound Ferry Service between Long Island, NY and New London, CT. This ship participated in the D-Day Landings on June 6th, 1944, and previously served both the Chesapeake Bay Ferry and the Cape May Lewes Ferry in New Jersey.
By East Point Lighthouse, near Heislerville, New Jersey, sits a wreck that, despite a fairly straight-forward story, is the source of several rumors about its origins. Some say it was the tug boat "Hazel Moore", wrecked in a storm. Others say that it's a sloop from the War of 1812. The truth is a bit less glamorous, but the "Fremont" is none the less a very interesting wreckage to survey and study.
Special thanks to Nelson "Captain" Klein for all of the information and some photographs, and the Maurice River Historical Society for pointing me in the right direction.
Deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens are ruins of two sites right on top of each other - the old Fries Mill settlement dating back to 1770, and the ruins of the New Jersey Silica Sand Company from 1915. Let's hike out there and see what we can find.
The second of twelve concrete freighters built for the Emergency Fleet Corporation at the end of the First World War, the USS Atlantus was obsolete right from her launch. Wrecked in a storm off Cape May, NJ in 1926, I wanted to kayak out to her and explore what remains before it settles beneath the waves forever.
Some shipwrecks are under the ocean. Others are buried in sands on beaches. The Sindia, hull number 204 at Harland and Wolff, is only a few yards from the shore, well beneath the sand in Ocean City, New Jersey.
I've got a piece of porcelain from her that my dad gave me long ago, but is this piece actually part of a complex cover-up by one of the richest men in modern history?
