Word: tamiami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the whistle-stop of Buies, N.C., a rail snapped. Couplings shook, cars teetered, the train jerked to a stop. The last three cars of the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida-bound Tamiami West Coast Champion were derailed, left hanging, tentatively, at a 45° angle over the northbound track...
Numbed Bodies. A full 35 minutes after the accident, passengers huddled atop the embankments heard an ominous sound. Up the northbound track, at a full 90 m.p.h., roared the Tamiami East Coast Champion, heading straight into the derailed cars. There was a sickening screech, a clattering crash; then stillness and, finally, the small cries of the hurt and dying...