The Train Engineer

Legend has it that Gale Cramer gave his life to save the lives of the passengers on his train.

His sacrifice was memorialized in Chicago’s Oak Woods Cemetery:

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You can read a little of his story here.

But why isn’t there a news story about this crash online?

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