Something I didn't know.

I am interested in the project called Electric Works that will involve the transformation of some of the fine old buildings on the abandoned GE campus into residential, commercial and retail spaces.  I understand from someone who toured there recently that after WWII, the GE plant here employed 20,000 people.  The facility included a gymnasium and a bowling alley. Like many people in this area I knew people who worked there.  My mother-in-law worked there during the war, and my uncle worked there for his entire working life.  I remember being envious that my cousin's family always had the newest TV set and other GE appliances. 
I was discussing all this with a friend from my home town who told me that her aunt and grandmother also worked at GE and used to ride to work with my uncle. She also told me that, on one of their drives into Fort Wayne, their car was hit by a train and dragged down the track for a long way before it got shaken loose.  It must have been a glancing blow because they all lived to tell about it.  I don't remember ever hearing this story before, which is pretty surprising considering all the family stories that got repeated over and over.  My aunt used to be quite a worrier. Perhaps she had reason.