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No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line
No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line

No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck, as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line

Date7/19/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: No contest: There's usually not much left when a moving train hits a car or truck; as the driver of this wreck discovered last year when he left it stalled on a Scarborough railway line.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001149F
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