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New York’s Grand Central Terminal Helped Provide the Blueprint for American Cities. It Happened by Accident

A train wreck that caused the death of more than a dozen commuters near the turn of the 20th century was the impetus behind a ...
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Components of the New York Central

The New York Central System was a vast and legendary railroad, connecting the East Coast to the Mississippi River. A key ...
IT'S HISTORY on MSN

How America’s Greatest Railroad Collapsed and What Remains Today

Once one of the largest and most powerful rail networks in the United States, the New York Central Railroad connected Manhattan to Chicago, Detroit, and even Canada. Today, only fragments ...
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The beginnings of the New York Central Railroad; a history, by Frank Walker Stevens

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The horrific LIRR Thanksgiving crash, 75 years ago, that spurred a turnaround in the railroad's passenger safety

According to the website Trains Are Fun, which documents LIRR crashes as far back as 1865, between 1912 and the end of 1950, ...