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>South of Alsen, New York, nine racks of new Cadillacs flipped over on a broken rail and lay beside the track in a mangled heap for 18 months. Wrecked boxcars lay along the track at Lake Katrine, at Esopus, at Cornwall, and at West Point. The speed was 10 mph on the temporary track installed after each of these wrecks, and since the line was so congested, there was no downtime for the work crews to get in to clean up the mess."
From Richard Saunders' "Merging Lines," which devotes several chapters to the failed Penn Central merger.
