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Commuter Subway Train Found Underneath Wreckage at World Trade Center Site

NEW YORK (AP) - Workers uncovered a commuter subway train lying underneath the rubble of the World Trade Center, but no bodies were found inside, officials said. The train was one of several in the PATH system, which carried thousands of passengers each day into Manhattan from New Jersey. The underground station at the trade center was the lower Manhattan hub for PATH trains before the collapse of the towers forced it to close.

The train was the only one not to leave the station as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks unfolded.

"It was out of service when the disaster struck," said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the station and operates PATH trains. "There was nobody on board the six-car train."

Coleman said the train was waiting to return to Newark, N.J., when the first of two hijacked planes crashed into the trade center. Other trains that entered the station as the attacks occurred were quickly sent back to New Jersey.

Coleman said that no one was trapped inside the PATH station, which was damaged but not destroyed in the attacks.

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