On the rainy Tuesday evening of February 6, 1951, a crowded rush-hour express train known as The Broker left Exchange Place in Jersey City for Bayhead, New Jersey, carrying 1,100 passengers, many of them Wall Street employees. Because the railroad tracks between Woodbridge and Perth Amboy were under construction, trains were using temporary tracks beside the permanent line through a restricted speed zone limited by Pennsylvania Railroad general order to 25 miles per hour. As the train passed through Woodbridge at more than 50 miles per hour, it reached a sharp turn at the temporary trestle just north of the train bridge at Legion Place. A mile earlier, the conductor had tried to pull the emergency cord because of the train’s speed, but the crowded aisle prevented him from doing so. The locomotive’s weight shifted the tracks, and eight of the eleven cars derailed; the first two fell onto their sides, and the third and fourth jackknifed into each other as they plunged down a 26-foot embankment. Later investigation found that the Pennsylvania Railroad had not installed yellow signals to warn the engineer that he was approaching a restricted speed zone. Woodbridge residents and people from neighboring towns rushed to help the victims, establishing treatment centers and morgues in stores, homes, and churches along Main Street. The wreck killed 85 passengers and injured more than 500, making it the third-worst train wreck in America.