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riversedge

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4. ."When one train ran into the other one, you'd put it back on the track," ........

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 25, 2026, 05:58 PM

Apr 25

If real life could be this simple!!
But kids need this simplicity when young.

..........“As a first-grader, I didn’t quite understand what the problem was because all I could relate to was my Lionel train. When one train ran into the other one, you’d put it back on the track,” said Keller, who for more than 50 years has been the Naperville Municipal Band conductor.

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On this day, April 25, 1946, 45 people were killed and some 125 were injured in a train wreck in Naperville, Illinois. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 OP

Two trains, one tragedy: Remembering the deadly wreck that shook Naperville 76 years ago mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 #1

."When one train ran into the other one, you'd put it back on the track," ........ riversedge Apr 25 #4

How the 1946 disaster in Naperville resulted in limits being placed on train speeds mahatmakanejeeves Apr 25 #2

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