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And injured another 200 and it happened just steps away from another rail accident more than 70 years earlier. on september 6th of 1943, an even deadlier railroad crash took place in philadelphia less than a mile from tuesday s accident. at the time, the doncongressional limited train was the fastest on the pennsylvania railroad line. it traveled between washington, d.c. and new york city at the then unheard of speed of 80 miles per hour. on labor day 1943 541 people boarded the limited at washington s union station. many of them were soldiers on leave for the holiday from world war ii. minutes past 6:00 p.m. after passing the north philadelphia station on broad street the train s seventh car flung upward. that sent the other cars flying off the rails. the cause? one of the train s journal boxes, which house the axles, overheated. all told 79 people were killed and 117 wounded in the ....

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