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The Malbone Street Wreck (Paperback)
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The Malbone Street Wreck (Paperback)
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On November 1, 1918, as the Great War in Europe was entering its
final hours, a five-car elevated train was heading for the Flatbush
section of Brooklyn with hundreds of homeward-bound commuters
aboard. As the train rumbled down a shor hill between Prospect Park
and Ebbets Field in the very heart of Brooklyn, the unthinkable
happened: the motorman lost control and the train left the tracks
as it curved into a tunnel at the foot of the hill. The ensuing
disaster, known ever since as the Malbone Street Wreck, took the
lives of almost a hundred people and stands as the worst
mass-transit accident in U.S. History. Unlike the Titanic disaster,
however, the Malbone Street Wreck has received scant attention from
scholars and historians over the years. As is so often the case,
popular accounts of the tragedy have managed to enshrine as dogma
thinkgs that are absolutely untrue. Now, Fordham University Press
is proud to present Brian J. Cudahy's long-awaited account of the
Malbone Street Wreck, a book that recounts the events leading up to
the disaster, describes the faithful trip from its beginning to
end, and reviews efforts conducted after the tragedy to fix blame
and establish liability. Could the Malbone Stret Wreck have been
avoided? Clearly yes, is Cudahy's answer. Had any number of factors
not combined in precisely the way that they did, the five-car train
might have well continued its journey to Brighton Beach in a
completely uneventful manner. But they did happen exactly as they
happened, and that is why The Malbone Street Wreck makes such
arresting reading. Could another Malbone Street Wreck happen at
some future time in New York, or on any other U.S. Mass Transit
System? Transit professionals will have to answer this question
after they read Cudahy's account of how and why November 1, 1918
has become such an important day in transportation history.
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