Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Garrison train crash
Once notable, always notable, and I think this would be notable regardless of time or place.  Like Avram, I would judge it by the same standards that we would apply to a 2007 rail accident that killed 19 people.  And I sincerely believe that both Yaksar and Libstar feel that this would be barred as simply , even if it had happened in 2007 rather than 1897.  However, I think that major transportation disasters qualify as  by being identified in almanacs and other reference books long after they have happened.  That the same level of detail is on List of rail accidents (pre-1950) doesn't affect my conclusion-- indeed, I think it simply shows up the fact that Wikipedia is top heavy on the "this just in" stuff and remarkably light on history, where everything that happened in 2010 gets its own article, and 135 years worth of events gets dumped into a "pre-1950" page.  That's going to happen in an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, with a demographic where most of the contributors were still children back in 1999
— User:Mandsford, 17:54, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:NOTNEWS||WP:EVENT (Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not)