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The Train in the Concourse

An express came through the station and through its floor, with an inauguration five days off.

Collection: Washington: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Vaulted main hall of Union Station
Vaulted main hall of Union Station · Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Harry Brower, sixty-five, with more than forty years on the Pennsylvania Railroad, applied his brakes on the way into Washington and very little happened. It was the morning of January 15, 1953. He had the Federal, the train from Boston, and it was running at about eighty miles an hour. He got the speed down, but not nearly enough, and told his fireman to sound the whistle. At C Tower a man named Harry Ball saw that nothing could be done to turn the train aside.

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Visiting

Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Avenue NE. A working station, open to the public. The original concourse is behind the main hall, and the locomotive landed in what is now the food court below it.

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