A fact from Shepherdsville train wreck appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the Shepherdsville train wreck, which caused about fifty deaths when two trains collided in December 1917, is the deadliest train wreck in the history of Kentucky?
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...the line, with 44 trains scheduled in each direction daily, could not be operated safely by the time-interval and dispatching system and recommended the railroad should "take immediate steps to implement an adequate block system for the protection of trains on this line".