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The train involved in the accident was the second southbound Hudson Line train of the day, leaving Poughkeepsie, the line's northern terminus, at its scheduled departure time of 5:54 a.m. EST. [2] It was powered by a GE P32AC-DM locomotive, [3] capable of running on either diesel fuel or electricity from a third rail.
The West Side Yard, between Penn Station and the Hudson River, as it appeared before the Hudson Yards real estate development project broke ground in 2012.. The West Side Yard (officially the John D. Caemmerer West Side Yard) is a rail yard of 30 tracks owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority on the west side of Manhattan in New York City.
1950 The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company Rapid Transit & Speedrail Crash, Greenfield, Wisconsin; 8 killed plus 40 injured. Crash ultimately doomed Wisconsin's only rapid transit line [156] 1950 Kew Gardens train crash, New York City; 78 killed plus hundreds injured in deadliest surface rail accident in New York. [157]
[206] [207] Placing a new Amtrak portal in Manhattan could have conflicted with the Hudson Yards project, which broke ground in late 2012. [72] In February 2013, Amtrak officials said they would commission a project to preserve a right-of-way under Hudson Yards for future use, to be built with $120 million to $150 million in federal funds.
The two ends of the northern tube under the river met in September 1906; at that time it was the longest underwater tunnel in the world. [ 3 ] [ 20 ] Meanwhile, the John Shields Construction Company had begun in 1905 to bore through Bergen Hill , the lower Hudson Palisades ; [ 21 ] William Bradley took over in 1906 and the tunnels to the ...
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The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office identified the victim as Hudson Joseph Meek, 16, who sustained blunt force injuries when he fell in the 1900 block of Canyon Road in Vestavia Hills on ...
The crash comes as law enforcement agencies around the world have been on edge this holiday season after an anti-Islam activist plowed his car into a Christmas market in Germany last week, killing ...