Talk:Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1940

A fact from Little Falls Gulf Curve crash of 1940 appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 May 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1940 crash of a New York Central luxury train, the Lakeshore Limited, killed 31, including the engineer who was one month from retirement?

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"Third deadliest of the 20th century"?

This needs to be qualified. Even the most cursory glance at List of American railroad accidents would show that this is far from the third deadliest U.S. rail accident of the 20th century.

I suspect the editor or source meant to say that it is New York's third deadliest of the 20th century, which it does seem to be, after the Malbone Street wreck and the Angola Horror. Daniel Case (talk) 07:01, 31 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]