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In addition to the two near Newark NJ
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Verplanck man killed by train in Cortlandt
LoHud.com
July 31, 2014

> CORTLANDT – A 27-year-old Verplanck man was killed Wednesday night
> after he ran from a platform onto the tracks at the Cortlandt train
> station and was struck by an Amtrak train, authorities said.
>
> Sal Arena, an MTA Metro-North Railroad spokesman, said Thursday
> morning that the man was Brian McCallum.
>
> The No. 243 train left Penn Station at 8:50 p.m. with 112 passengers
> and was bound for Albany when it struck the man just north of the
> station at 9:48 p.m., said Assistant Chief Stephen Conner of the
> Metropolitan Transportation Authority police.
>
> A man was killed Wednesday night after being struck by an Amtrak
> train near the Cortlandt train station James O'Rourke/The Journal
> News
>
> "The engineer reports that the deceased ran off the north end of the
> platform at Cortlandt station onto the track area as the train was
> passing through the station at approximately 60 mph," Arena said.

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