Word: pokorney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind it the 6:13 rushed closer & closer, its coaches performing a rattling dance upon their trucks, its crowded passengers and their upraised newspapers swaying in rhythmic unison. Its engineer, a 55-year-old railroader named Benjamin Pokorney, fled past a stop signal 3,516 feet from the stalled 6:09 at 60 miles an hour, apparently gambling (as other engineers have before him) that the track ahead would clear in time. He had only 850 feet of rails left when his headlight told him the terrible truth...
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