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BA/bridg.pr Contact: Mike Hall, 301-217-6535 or
David Weaver, 301-217-6530
OFFICIALS TO DEDICATE
16TH STREET BRIDGE
TO TRAIN WRECK VICTIMS,
RESCUE WORKERS For Immediate Release: March 13, 1996
The 16th Street bridge over the CSX tracks in Silver Spring will be
dedicated to the victims and rescue workers from the February 16 train wreck
in a public ceremony on March 19 at 9:45 a.m.
Elected officials and representatives of government agencies will
participate in the ceremony to be held on the bridge. A plaque will be placed
at the north end of the bridge in memory of the ll passengers and crew of MARC
Train #286 who died in the crash and in honor of the hundreds who aided in the
rescue efforts.
The County will provide free shuttle bus service to the site from
parking garage #7 at Cameron street and Ramsey Road from 9 to 9:40 a.m. and
will return to the garage following the ceremony.
Sixteenth Street will be closed between Second Avenue and Spring Street
on the 19th from 9 to 11 a.m.
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