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World Service,6 mins

Which famous hotel has a train station hidden beneath it?

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When Richard Starapoli was a young Secret Service agent in New York City, he never knew where his next assignment would take him. Jobs involved running security checks on venues where high profile guests would be staying. One day - a very important guest was headed to the city, the President of the United States of America. When he went to run checks on the President's hotel, he stumbled across a surprising find, a secret railway carriage! (Photo: US President's forgotten train carriage discovered beneath the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York Credit: MTA Metro-North Railroad)

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