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mahatmakanejeeves

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5. Just like this.

Reply to Harker (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 7, 2020, 08:02 PM

Aug 2020

Fairview Avenue, on the old Burlington. Three track-main. A train is making a station stop on one of them. The other two?

The Train Accident Of Mary T Wojtyla
8,143 views•Aug 22, 2018

Matthew Cipolla
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On August 26, 1991, 41-year-old Mary T. Wojtyla of Chicago, was fatally hit by a Metra commuter train headed by a leased Burlington Northern Railroad EMD E9 locomotive no. 9912 at the Fairview Avenue station in Downers Grove, Illinois, United States. The fatal accident was captured on camera by a railfan originally intending to film the last days of E9 service on Metra. Footage of the accident is used in training videos and shown at many Operation Lifesaver events with the impact edited out.

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Chief: Man struck, killed by train in Plains Township was listening to music [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 OP

Thanks Darwin.... sfstaxprep Aug 2020 #1

The family wasn't able to identify the remains--ugh. BusyBeingBest Aug 2020 #2

This happened to a cousin of mine. Cousin by way of marriage. Dem2theMax Aug 2020 #3

My brother retired from the railroad in Chicago. Harker Aug 2020 #4

Just like this. mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2020 #5

Afraid so. Harker Aug 2020 #6