Great Railroad Strike of 1877 in Ohio

The Central Ohio Railroad (which was a subsidiary of the Baltimore & Ohio) reported that in 1866 its trains killed thirty-four cows, six steers, eleven calves, five hogs, sixty-two sheep, nine horses and one colt. The saddest part of this is that the amount of compensation given to the owners of these dead animals amounted to zero. Most if not all of these animals probably met their deaths at the end of the so-called cowcatcher, which did no such thing. Made of iron, this piece of hardware was designed to prevent derailment by smashing through anything that got in the engine’s way, be it animal, person or vehicle. This fact came from The Great Railroad Strike in Ohio by this website's creator, Mark Strecker. You can buy it at Amazon or from the History Press.