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Garbage trains vex Queens high school

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NEW YORK, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Railroad officials say they are looking for a new place to park freight cars packed with smelly garbage rather than next to a New York City high school.

The reeking cars have made the first weeks of school particularly unpleasant for the 1,200 students at Christ the King Regional High School in Queens.

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"In class, I'd see kids holding their noses and coughing a lot," sophomore Jessica Wasserfall, 15, told the New York Post. "My friends complain about feeling nauseous from the smell."

The Post said state Sen. Serphim Maltese, R-Queens, has been getting on CSX Corp. and the New York-and-Atlantic Railway to do something about the cars that since June have been parked for hours at a time on a siding next to the school and the Avenue M subway platform.

The railroads told the newspaper they were doing their best to find a solution to the problem.

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