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Accident in Canarsie Yard earlier today |
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Posted by AMoreira81 on Wed Jun 21 14:41:01 2006 At Rockaway Parkway station at about 11:45 AM today, I was about to board an L train when (on what I learned later is Track 10 in the yard), a train was speeding down the track (at at LEAST a good 15 mph), and I knew that there wasn't any good coming out of this. About 5 seconds later, I heard a loud bang (startling everyone in the station), and the first car of the train (8277) wound up running off the track, and was telescoped over the bumper block, with the T/O cab hanging over the entrance where buses pull into the station (missing a B6 which has JUST cleared and had entered the station).8277, despite what happened, looks only to have damage to the composite part of the blind end (which ended up slightly bumping that of 8278). Pictures will be shown of the end result tonight. The T/O was carried off on a stretcher, but he looked alert. The accident sounded worse than it actually was, although the sound of it could be heard from Rockaway and Flatlands (and the firehouse, which is just 400 feet away from the station). |
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