Dec 30, 2020
Len Brown, left, director of a documentary on the Ashtabula train disaster, adjusts a camera with Rick Elliott, background assisting, during filming at the Jefferson Train Depot in February of 2019. The production has been put on hold with the coronavirus pandemic. WARREN DILLAWAY | Star Beacon
ASHTABULA â It has been 144 years and one day since the Ashtabula train disaster that left 92 people dead when a bridge collapsed over the Ashtabula River on Dec. 29, 1876.
Attempts to remember the lessons of the horrible disaster, that is credited with changing railroad safety regulations, are still on hold as documentarian Len Brown waits for the opportunity to continue shooting the movie after a decade of research and about a year of filming before COVID-19 put the project on hold.