Description	View from the front of a Metro-North Hudson Line train as it passes through Rolling Mill Cut between Spuyten Duyvil and Marble Hill stations along Spuyten Duyvil Creek in the Bronx at approximately 20 mph (30 km/h).This clip is intended to demonstrate how limited vision is in the 500-foot cut. On a winter evening in 1882, (at which time the track curved sharply to the left at the end of the cut), just to the east of it, at the end of the cut (and the video), a local train crashed into the back of an express, stopped due to a drunken state legislator thinking it would be funny to pull the emergency brake. The approaching train did not or could not see a flagman trying to alert them to the stopped train (who ma until it was too late to avoid collision; eight people died.
Date	2023-12-26
Source	commons.wikimedia.org
Author	Daniel Case

Metro-North front view through Rolling Mill Cut

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