[ARC5] Locomotives

[gordon white]

      Remember - or am I too old - when the two trains crashed in 
Rockville Centre? Must have been around 1949 when they were elevating 
the rails. Temporarily the LIRR used a "gauntlet track" with one rail in 
the middle of the other pair. Signals, etc. should have kept the 
opposing trains apart, but something failed and two trains collided 
there, slicing the lead cars in half, rolling up the center halves like 
opened sardine cans. Killed 24 as I remember. I was a 
reporter/photographer for the Nassau Daily Review Star and I still have 
two prints I took that night.  If anyone wants to see them I suppose I 
could put them on-line, though I do not know if this site accepts 
photos. Or contact me off-line at _gewhite at crosslink.net

_I lived in Freeport and both steam and electric trains went past. The 
tracks were at grade in Freeport and at least once a year a driver would 
get hit trying to beat a train at a crossing.

  - Gordon White
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