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Paperback Train Wreck, The True Story Behind The Silver Spring, Maryland, Commuter Rail Disaster Book

ISBN: 0615334482

ISBN13: 9780615334486

Train Wreck, The True Story Behind The Silver Spring, Maryland, Commuter Rail Disaster

An hour-by-hour and minute-by minute narrative, non-fiction account of the horrific 1996 collision between a Maryland Rail Commuter (MARC) train and the Amtrak Capitol Limited near Silver Spring, Maryland, and its aftermath. Eight student passengers and two crew members were trapped inside a locked and fast burning car and died before Montgomery County Fire and Rescue professionals could reach them. Interwoven into the story are the personal stories of the victims, the history of the former Baltimore and Ohio railroad line in Maryland (the historic builders of the site) and a trip into the grit, stress and dangers of railroad jobs that today remain basically unchanged from a century ago. Readers are also walked through interesting descriptions of how to operate a locomotive and how railroad signals and train brakes work. With this information they can solve the mystery of the accident.

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