Remembering the Rockville Centre train crash 75 years later

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Remembering the Rockville Centre train crash 75 years later

Seventy-five years ago on Monday, two Long Island Rail Road trains crashed head-on just west of the Rockville Centre station, killing at least 29 people and injuring over 100. The crash on the night of Feb. 17, 1950, was the deadliest collision in the railroad’s history at the time, until another LIRR crash in Queens killed 78 people eight months later. “The few passengers who were interviewed were too shocked to give a very coherent account of …