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2015 (Finalized)

On July 8, 2015, at approximately midnight an eastbound New York & Atlantic Railway (NYA) Train RS-30 struck a tractor-trailer at the Maspeth Avenue highway-rail grade crossing of the Lower Montauk Branch in Queens, New York. The collision caused the tractor-trailer to catch fire, destroying...