Nostalgia & History > The wreck that gave birth to the NY MTA

New York Post looks back at a series of horrific wrecks on the Long Island Rail Road which eventually paved the way for state ownership and control. A man, holding a bouquet of flowers. Cut off at the waist. A head, impaled on a hat rack.

>>On impact, the front car of the oncoming train and the back car of the stalled train had fused into a single mass of twisted metal and trapped bodies.

A witness described seeing riders “packed like sardines, in their own blood.”

It would take all night, in freezing weather, for emergency workers — working by floodlight with acetylene-fueled cutting torches and wooden ladders — to free the survivors and pull the 78 dead men and women from the wreckage.<<


http://nypost.com/2017/09/19/this-horrific-deadly-train-wreck-sparked-the-creation-of-the-mta/