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LOOKING BACK

Posted on 13 April 2018.

Woodbridge Train Wreck 1951

WOODBRIDGE – Woodbridge Train Wreck, February 6, 1951. A train derailed crossing a temporary wooden trestle, killing 86 people. It is the deadliest train wreck in New Jersey.

*Photo Courtesy of Ken Puccio

This photo was restored under a grant from the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission to the Kearny Cottage Historical Association.


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