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Word: gilarranz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragically awry. Amtrak's New England Zip, heading from Washington, D.C., to Boston, rammed head-on into another Amtrak train, the Shoreliner, en route from Boston to New York City, on a trestle 80 ft. above a shopping district in Queens, N.Y. The crash left Spanish Diplomat Enrique Gilarranz dead and 125 other passengers injured. When an Amtrak train hit a pickup truck at a grade crossing in South Carolina three days later, killing one person, the number of fatal Amtrak accidents in the past month reached five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: A Head-On Amtrak Crash | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

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