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The high price of quiet trains: Listen to episode 4 of WLRN/Herald podcast

By Daniel Rivero WLRN
Seth H. Bramson, Florida East Coast Railroad’s company historian, gives a tour of his home on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Miami Shores, Florida.
Seth H. Bramson, Florida East Coast Railroad’s company historian, gives a tour of his home on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Miami Shores, Florida. Photo by Matias J. Ocner mocner@miamiherald.com

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Killer Train

Brightline is the deadliest major passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.

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The tracks Brightline trains run on were already the deadliest stretch of railroad in the nation in the 1980s and ‘90s, long before Brightline began running on them, according to federal data. Have local governments learned anything from that history?

Listen to episode four of the “Killer Train” podcast, hosted by WLRN’s Danny Rivero and the Miami Herald’s Brittany Wallman:

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Killer Train

Brightline is the deadliest major passenger railroad in the United States. An investigation by the Miami Herald and WLRN reveals the shocking toll and the failures that led to it.

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