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Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train

Posted by JayZeeBMT on Sat Sep 13 06:54:32 2008, in response to Re: **Breaking News** - Metrolink Train collides with freight train, posted by Easy on Fri Sep 12 22:51:20 2008.

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I don't understand why push/pull is a "controversy" at all. The LIRR has done push/pull for as far back as I can remember. There have been several accidents at grade involving LIRR trains in push mode. The one that stands out in my memory is a horrific incident at Herricks Road in 1982. A van full of teenagers high on God Knows What was struck by an FA, with predictable results for the kids. But unlike the LA incident in which a suicidal person parked his Jeep on the tracks, there was no derailment, and the only fatalities in the 1982 incident were the kids in the van.

God rest the unfortunate victims of yesterday's accident, and watch over those who were injured.

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