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"These confounded railroads have a passion for smashing up my best cars."

January 1, 1970

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Who: Webster Wagner — These are the last words Wagner, founder of the sleeper-car company that bore his name and a New York state senator at the time of his death, is known to have said before dying in the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck. The train had stopped unexpectedly between stations after another state legislator, reportedly intoxicated, thought it would be funny to pull the emergency brake. After saying this, Wagner got up to investigate the reason for the stop. Minutes later, another tr

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Who: Webster Wagner — These are the last words Wagner, founder of the sleeper-car company that bore his name and a New York state senator at the time of his death, is known to have said before dying in the 1882 Spuyten Duyvil train wreck. The train had stopped unexpectedly between stations after another state legislator, reportedly intoxicated, thought it would be funny to pull the emergency brake. After saying this, Wagner got up to investigate the reason for the stop. Minutes later, another tr