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Metro-North Traintop Stowaway Electrocuted, Catches Fire, Lives!

January 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

OK, here is one for the record books. Yesterday Ricardo Chavez, 37, for reasons unknown to anyone so far, was riding on top of a Stamford-bound Metro-North train. Around the time the train was approaching Pelham station, power was switched from the third rail to the train’s overhead catenary lines, delivering over 11,000 volts of [...]

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