{"id":23558,"date":"2019-01-15T12:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=23558"},"modified":"2019-01-15T17:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:52:10","slug":"january-15th-gg1-4876-and-the-anniversary-of-the-federal-express-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/january-15th-gg1-4876-and-the-anniversary-of-the-federal-express-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"January 15th\u2014GG1 4876 and the Anniversary of the Federal Express Wreck."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 15<sup>th<\/sup> is the anniversary of the 1953\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.steamlocomotive.com\/GG1\/prr4876-crash.shtml\">Washington Union Terminal crash<\/a>, when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_Railroad\">Pennsylvania Railroad<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0GG1 4876 leading the\u00a0<em>Federal Express\u00a0<\/em>lost its brakes and careened into the lobby of the terminal. 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