Walk through fire: the train disaster that changed America

Prologue: Ball of fire

Introduction

Derailed

Morning rounds

Nautilus Memorial Hospital

The man called Toad

From the river to the rail

Minding the perimeter

A two-ton barbell

The end of the world

Inferno

Triage in a two-room ER

The day after

The greatest sacrifice

For whom the bells tolled

The misery of hindsight

Recovery road

A force for change

One agency, one mission

Hazardous materials

The struggle of the rural hospital

Epilogue

Coda

In memoriam: The 16 lives lost in the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978.