February 6, 2001 marked the 50th Anniversary of one of the country's worst rail disasters, the wreck of the Pennsylvania Railroad train "The Broker" at Fulton Street in Woodbridge. 85 people lost their lives that evening, and over 500 of the 1,100 people on the train were injured. 

Newspaper Stories:

'I Never saw anything like it...It was like a war scene'

It's 50 years since rail crash but it seems like only yesterday

Memorials pay tribute to the lives and loves of disasters' victims

1951 Train wreck recalled in tears

Fifty years after train wreck, healing is allowed to begin

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