Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 17th February, 1996 The clean up the day after the fatal train crash. When a MARC commuter train collided with Amtrak's Capitol Limited passenger train in Silver Spring, Maryland. The collision killed three crew and eight passengers on the MARC train; a further eleven passengers on the MARC train and fifteen passengers and crew on the Capitol Limited were injured. The crash led to the creation of comprehensive federal rules for passenger car design, the first in the history of passenger service in the United States. Credit: Mark Reinstein

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Location: Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA,
Photo credit: © mark reinstein / Alamy / Afripics
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