page_title: Harvey, Illinois train collision
hierarchical_section_title: Harvey, Illinois train collision
caption_attribution_description: English: An Amtrak press run with new Superliner cars, stopped at Lisle, Illinois in October 1979. Photographers were hoisted onto a factory roof by a cherry-picker to get this photographic angle.
context_page_description: The Harvey train collision took place on 12 October 1979, when the Shawnee train operated by Amtrak between Carbondale and Chicago Union Station crashed into a parked Illinois Central Gulf freight train, leading to the death of two crew members.
context_section_description: The Harvey train collision took place on 12 October 1979, when the Shawnee train operated by Amtrak between Carbondale and Chicago Union Station crashed into a parked Illinois Central Gulf freight train, leading to the death of two crew members.
caption: The Amtrak train was made up of a P30CH (in this picture the locomotive is a F40PH) and five Superliners, roughly identical to this, seen the previous day.
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