Jamaica el running off the end of the line.

Does anyone know the story behind this picture?

http://nycsubway.org/perl/show?112845

I know the area and that station well, but I never heard of this incident.

There was nothing in the web site regarding the accident. My guess is that the train could have gone too fast to stop and overran the bumper.

I would venture a guess around the early to mid-50's. Anyone know when the Standards stopped running on the Jamaica line?

BTW, I would love to see a photo of where the truck landed! I just hope there were no cars beneath it considering that this area of Jamaica Avenue is a high traffic thoroughfare.

Frankie

Was the truck sheared off at the bumper or did it fall off? I know now that FRA passenger train cars are mandated to have bolted kingpins rather than gravity kingpins, but this train is neither FRA-compliant nor contemporary.

frankie wrote:I would venture a guess around the early to mid-50's. Anyone know when the Standards stopped running on the Jamaica line?

BTW, I would love to see a photo of where the truck landed! I just hope there were no cars beneath it considering that this area of Jamaica Avenue is a high traffic thoroughfare.

Frankie

The Standards ran until sometime in 1969.

Maybe the motorman thought he was still in coney island on a bumper car?

Was anyone injured ?? That seems like a major fail on someone's part.