On February 16, 1996, a MARC commuter train collided with Amtrak's Capitol Limited passenger train in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, killing three crew and eight passengers on the MARC train;
Track diagram of the collision area
Crew fatalities
Passenger fatalities
Memorial at the Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center
Metropolitan Subdivision
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The Metropolitan Subdivision is a railroad line owned and operated by CSX Transportation in Washington, D.C., and Maryland. The 53-mile line runs from Washington, D.C., northwest to Weverton, Maryland
Westbound CSX autorack train on the Metropolitan Subdivision in Point of Rocks
The stone arch railroad bridge built over the newly-diverted Rock Creek in 1893 now passes over Beach Drive and the bike path
Rockville station in 1978, before it was moved away from the tracks
Georgetown Branch in Bethesda, Maryland, near where it crossed Bethesda Avenue