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The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers each conducted separate inquiries into the wreck, and all three found that the absence of a "dead man's switch" was one primary cause of the crash. After the inquiries, the New Jersey Public Utilities Commission ...
On February 6, 1951, a Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed on a temporary wooden trestle in Woodbridge, New Jersey, United States, killing 85 passengers. It remains New Jersey's deadliest train wreck, the deadliest U.S. derailment since 1918 and the deadliest peacetime rail disaster in U.S. history.
English: Site of train wreck in Woodbridge, NJ, USA, on February 6, 1951, along today's NJ Transit North Jersey Coast Line.A commuter train engineer went into a temporary diversion at well over the posted speed limit, derailing the train and killing 85.
Bloodied passengers escaped through the train's windows, while others staggered onto the platform, which was blocked by a collapsed section of the roof. Passengers on New Jersey train describe ...
The train collided head-on with a Seaboard Coast Line freight train. RAR-80-8: July 9, 1980 Quaker City: Linden, New Jersey: Equipment collision 1 17 The train struck a rail protruding from a work train. RAR-80-12 November 7, 1980 Empire State Express: Dobbs Ferry, New York: Train collision 0 84 A Conrail freight train collided with the Amtrak ...
The operator of a New Jersey Transit River Line train was killed when the train hit a downed tree in Mansfield Township, NJ, Monday morning, October 14, 2024. The incident also left 23 passengers ...
Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in New Jersey" ... 1996 Secaucus train collision; 2016 Hoboken train crash; A. 1896 Atlantic City rail crash;
The service between Florence and Trenton, New Jersey was suspended Monday morning after a train struck a tree. 1 dead, 23 injured after train crashes into downed tree in New Jersey Skip to main ...