WWW.NYPOST.COM SEE:GHOST TRAIN (UNTIL MIDNIGHT 1/10/02-NY TIME) The front page of the NY Post showed the Path train uncovered in the wreckage of the Trade Towers.. You can see it beneath some steelwork that still is standing. It is out in the daylight now. Something that never would ever have happened otherwise. Not levels beneath 110 floors anyway.
Now I know why my newstand was sold out of the Post this morning. That picture left me speechless. Russ Hoffman Valley RR
Thank God no one was on the train, but yes it is one eerie photo.............. I wonder if they will just slice it up right there. There is talk of rebuilding a massive transportation facility soon. It will include the 14 subway lines, bus lines, Path train and others. [I saw a hunk of scrap metal being driven up Church St. on Sunday (working a lot of OT here) and freaked to realize it was what was left of a mini van, or even a full size one. All that I could recognize was the still intact grill and the untouched headlights. Everything behind the grill was mashed down to about 2 feet or less.] [Fire Apparatus Journal Magazine (Jan-Feb) had the most amazing photos of destroyed fire trucks. Many were flipped over by the displacement of air as the towers came down floor on top of floor. The wind was as high as 200 mph.]
Did anyone save a copy of the pic? The NYPOST website doesn't seem to have kept a copy. Thank god TB doesn't have pop-ups like that site!
Thanks Charlie I was looking for the same photo myself. The same pic was on the front page of our paper here today, an amazing pic. I wonder if any of the train will be recoverable?
I was asking myself the same question about how that train is going to be removed from there. It's possible after the rest of the building is removed it could be lifted out by crane. I believe that some of the tunnel caved in so pulling it out may not be possible. I think that a couple of the cars are even more intact than the ones in the photo. It was a 6 car train and some still shots on the news one night seemed to show a better looking car or two but I'm not sure. I would hope somehow at least one car could be lifted out in one piece. But where would it be displayed..........????????????
If you want to read the story that was with the pic, then go to the site and click on 'Last 7 Days'. Then click on Thursday, Jan. 10th, it will be the pic. The story will then follow. I'm wondering if some lives could've been saved had they somehow made it into the empty train before the towers fell. But then, I also realize how long it took to uncover them. Just a sad thought any way you look at it.
BC, i think they would have smothered to death even if they weren't crushed to death first. I took that train to Hoboken just 3 days before the bombing. I still can't believe any of it.
By the time this train arrived at the WTC, the area of the station had been pretty well evacuated, thanks to quick and calm thinking by a PATH dispatcher and other staff members. The details of the story are in articles published in the Newark Star-Ledger and other papers. In all, the newspaper articles credit the PATH personnel with saving at least 5000 lives. I believe the Star-Ledger article was repeated in Reader's Digest.
There were several Path officials that were on the news and television and they got plenty of recognition indeed. They ordered the trains out of there right away. I imagine that fire alarms were going off all over the place, and one train crew actually told people to get back on board so they could get out of there. I think I would have been frightened to death after knowing about the first bombing in '93 and I'd have no problem getting back on board. I do believe there is a loop under the Towers and that's how the last couple of trains made it in and out so fast. Unfortunetly one train arrived just as the plane hit, and many Path employees and of course the PA cops were credited with getting all those people out of the building safely. Some of them may have been lost in the street when the second plane hit.......... I have seen pictures of MELTED fire trucks that were in the street. They were burned from top to bottom from the jet fuel that came raining down onto the street below. Others were burned from bottom to top.
