When the train arrived in New Haven, PRR GG1 No. 4876, an electric locomotive, was coupled on, along with several passenger cars from Springfield.
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The brakes on the cars of the Federal Express, a passenger and mail train operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, malfunctioned and the train crashed into the station, jumped the passenger platform, and plunged through the floor of the passenger terminal into the basement of the station.
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