Re: [NSW] Gauntlet Track

[Deeg <galtfd@att.net>]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:25:24 +1000, "Chris Downs"
<cvdowns@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>From memory the Americans had a bad head-on collision on gauntlet track in
>New York - Richmond from memory???  The track was gauntlet to bypass works
>of some kind and much the same as has occurred on single track two EMUs
>collided head on (slight offset) due to a SPAD.  Steel cars were involved
>but the telescoping was quite nasty with loss of life.

Rockville Centre on the Long Island RR (New York), 17 Feb 1950. 31
fatalities. Easily confused with the far worse Richmond Hill on the
LIRR in November of the same year, which killed 79 when a stopped
train was struck from behind at high speed. 

Don Galt